Slavery Vs Chattel Slavery

Slavery between chattel Africa and New World Africa both were strong manners of oppression that were used to be a tool of fear and oppression. New World slavery often described with ostracizing the victim, is not usually thought of as a way to oppress someone especially in Modern Day Western Civilization. A contrived conception of African slavery by white oppressors often comes with the almost blaming of the African peoples who were in fact enslaved. Oppressors claiming that New World slavery was not as bad compared to chattel and that chattel slavery is savage compared to their own. Although this might be different than the physical brutality that is often thought of when using the term slavery, this connotation is what would be called chattel …show more content…
New World slaves were enslaved, at least in part, because of their own actions or the social climate around them. This while immoral, still addresses the base personhood of the people involved. The enslavement of chattel slaves, however, was justified by their perceived inferiority to their traffickers and future owners. The station of the slaves was that of an animal. This is readily seen in the meticulous logs kept by slave traders. The cold manner in which they dismiss their victim’s personhood by reducing them to figures supplemented by the occasional two-dimensional comment is revolting and illuminating.
Another indicator of the way chattel slaves were considered subhuman, unlike their New World counterparts, is the way all further offspring of a chattel slave were considered property of their owners. This solidifies for us that chattel slaves were considered as much like livestocks and that their personhood was of no concern to their owners. Expressed with verbal and physical abuse to match each other hand in hand, this is what I recognize as slavery. This version of slavery allowed freedom to be gained once reaching a safe or non pro slavery area. That being said this did not come with every right to freedom a former slave’s white counterpart might …show more content…
They might argue that without taking them both into perspective you might be totally eliminating the whole idea of well rounded discussions and opinions. I actually disagree with this notion simply because in order to be well versed within the two one most and just by analyzing these documents I would say the argument is far from a solution being found. Until I personally can connect with New World slavery as easily or more in tune as I can sometimes connect with chattel slavery I cannot wholeheartedly agree that these both were of similar magnitude. Understandably this might be seen as ignorant, possibly foolishly on my part but I stand by my decision and unless there is more information or a more on this depiction of New World slavery I unfortunately cannot see the two being equal. A lot of this unfortunately comes from a almost strictly Western view of the world, creating almost a wall which beyond a person, in this case I could not see, unless exposed to by an outside source. Creating access to the different sources is something that I think needs to be done in order to better understand truly what slavery consisted of and what people dealt with. The two