Why Did Chattel Slavery Develop?

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In the article “We Unfortunate English People Suffer Here”: An English Servant Writes Home, Elizabeth Sprigs documents the circumstances that necessitated the need for servants and slaves. She notes that planters required the services of laborers to help them settle down in their new surroundings. The author also highlights the numerous travails and privations that the settlers subjected the servants to (Sprigs par.2). The afflictions included severe beatings and lack of enough food and proper clothing.
In the 16th chapter of the book American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia, Edmund Morgan, gives a holistic view of servitude and slavery in Virginia. He, for instance, outlines the circumstances that constrained individuals to become slaves or servants. In addition, the author notes the distinct differences between these two groups of people (Morgan 318). The chapter also highlights the sensitive issue of interracial marriages and how people handled it.
The book the Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano Written by Himself, edited by Allison, entails the life of a freed slave known as Equiano. The first chapter of the book details the ethnic roots of Equiano, which was the kingdom of Benin (Allison 35). He gives a comprehensive account of his country of birth and the manners and customs of his people. The second chapter details his birth, parentage, and ultimate kidnapping. The third chapter talks about Equiano’s arriva...