Similarities Between Slavery And Chattel Slavery

Slavery was an essential component of the economy back in the day and it was because of slavery that our country and other countries are the way they are today. Enslaved Africans were taken from their homeland and forced to construct and build the foundations of the Americas as well some European cities as well. Considered one of the most impactful moments in the slavery movement, the transatlantic slave trade has made its mark. The transatlantic trade influenced the states, economics of both North and South America as well as other places, and the societies. This analysis of the similarities and differences of slavery and its comparison to chattel slavery in the Americas is going to be based off primary source documents such as the West Africa in the 1790’s written by Mungo Park and P.E.H. Hair’s document called Narratives of Enslavement.

In the document written by Mungo Park, he explains the circumstances that slaves endured in Africa. Slaves in Africa gave their services to their “masters” in exchange for no reward, no funds, and no freedom. The only thing they were given was a source of

With this service of labor both chattel and African enslavement did not provide them with freedom, money, or dignity. Slaves were also similarity divided into different classes or groups. But in a different fashion, in Africa they were divided by form of enslavement, in America they were divided by color of skin tone. Another similarity is the fact that women who were enslaved and gave birth to babies passed down the slavery to their offspring. In both Africa and the Americas slaves were sold off in markets and through other people. Price of slaves were also similar because people that bought slaves bought them for work and farming, in which a strong male was seen as more expensive than a small