chattel slavery
noun
: slavery in which a person is owned as a chattel (see chattel sense 2)
chattel slave
noun
plural chattel slaves
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Its origins lie in one of the country’s most pivotal reckonings: The effort to redress the legal and moral horrors of chattel slavery.
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Paola Mendoza, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
His family history shows how violence and rape in the era of chattel slavery can be felt over the generations, both for the family of the enslavers and for the enslaved.
—Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2025
America's great antebellum dispute, that over chattel slavery, similarly concerned the nature of the human person.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
And yet, chattel slavery was not peculiar to the United States.
—Ana Lucia Araujo / Made By History, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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Paola Mendoza, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
His family history shows how violence and rape in the era of chattel slavery can be felt over the generations, both for the family of the enslavers and for the enslaved.
—Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2025
America's great antebellum dispute, that over chattel slavery, similarly concerned the nature of the human person.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
And yet, chattel slavery was not peculiar to the United States.
—Ana Lucia Araujo / Made By History, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Chattel slavery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chattel%20slavery. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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