Dispelling common myths about chattel slavery
The scale of the transatlantic slave trade and the brutal repression of lands and peoples in the Caribbean, Americas and Africa remains unprecedented. The Caribbean archipelago was the experimental lab ground for industrialised dehumanisation and extractive modes of production. The system of chattel slavery enforced an ideology of inhumanity that persists today. Entire communities, populations, cultures were condemned as ‘chattel’ in the name of economic monopoly – this is what is called the Plantation system.
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