Chattel Slavery

Slave Trade: This refers to the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves, especially black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.

Middle Passage: This was part of the trade where Africans were densely packed onto ships and transported across the Atlantic to the West Indies.

Plantation System: A system in which large farms in the American colonies used the enforced labor of slaves to plant and harvest cotton, rice, sugar, tobacco and other farm produce for trade and export.