How did the development of 'chattel slavery' in the British colonies differ from labor systems in Africa or Europe?
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Correct answer: It was a status that was inherited and based on a racial hierarchy.
Unlike some forms of bondage elsewhere, American chattel slavery became a permanent, hereditary condition defined by race. Laws were gradually passed to ensure that the children of enslaved mothers were born into slavery themselves.
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