Chattel slavery is an item of personal property. In a system of chattel slavery, slaves were defined by law, not as persons, but as the personal property of their owners. Debt bondage is a person’s pledge of their labor as security for repayment of a debt or any other obligation. Forced labor is when people are forced to work, or perform services against their will under the threat of any form of punishment. Serfdom is the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism.
The Arab slave trade first began in the 7th century. Slavery first started in the colony of Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. The eastern Arab slave trade dealt with mainly African women,