EFFECTS OF CHATTEL SLAVERY

• • Europeans purchased male slaves 2:1
  • main economic engine of imperial empires in the Americas was difficult agricultural work and mining
  • significantly impacted the demographics of various African states
• • Size of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade > Indian Ocean & Mediterranean Counterparts
• • Racial Component of Atlantic Slave System
  • in the Americas, slavery became identified with blackness
  • provided the justification for the brutality of slavery