Warren defines chattel slavery as “inheritable, permanent, and commodified bondage” (12). This type of slavery was popularized throughout America and the West Indies through the colonists’ participation in the transatlantic slave trade.

Extractive Colonialism is when a small population of colonists moves to a new area with the goal of extracting wealth from the landscape, usually through the labor of the indigenous inhabitants or another workforce. English colonies in the West Indies were extractive colonies.

Warren uses the term “Indian” to refer to the Indigenous people of the New England region. This is the same term the English colonists used in their literature and laws.