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An indentured servant would work for a specific time, maybe 7 years, to pay off a debt. In most cases, slavery is for life.
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Slavery is a form of forced labor in which people are considered to be, or treated as, the property of others. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth,...
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As with European indentured servants, the Africans were freed ... By switching to pure chattel slavery, new white laborers and small farmers were mostly limited to those who could afford to immigrate and support themselves. Slavery in British North America; 1642: Massachusetts becomes the first colony to legalize slavery.
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Ira Berlin observes that the history of black chattel slavery blurred the differences between slavery and indentured servitude for African-Americans: ... The more closely that indentured servitude became identified with black labor, the smaller the difference between the treatment of slave and servant ...
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Chattel slavery did not exist under the Law of Moses. There was no form of servitude under the Law of Moses which placed them in the legal position of chattel slaves. ... This protected the Hebrew debtor from being sold into slavery or indentured service against his will, an act which his debtor had no right to do.
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Essays and Term Papers on indentured servants slaves. ... The English system by comparison viewed the slaves initially as a form of indentured servants, but soon these ideas changed into a system of chattel slavery. ...
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Traditional slavery, often called chattel slavery, is probably the least prevalent of the contemporary forms of slavery. Such chattel slaves are used for their labor, sex, and breeding, and are exchanged for camels, trucks, guns, or money. Children of chattel slaves remain the property of their master. And even among...
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The family’s commercial, agricultural and industrial enterprises employed at one time some 340 chattel slaves, who by 1790 had eclipsed white indentured servants as the real source of Ridgely labor. ... the nature of its chattel slavery depended to a remarkable degree on the personality and attitudes of the owner at the time.
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As even Aristotle acknowledged, chattel slavery is different from other varieties of servitude. More than thirteen centuries before Aristotle, ... In seventeenth-century Virginia, a slave named Francis Payne harvested enough tobacco to buy his owner two white indentured servants and then purchase freedom for himself,
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