How to Use chattel slavery in a Sentence

chattel slavery

noun

• Since chattel slavery began here, Black worth and Black wealth have always been something to be fought over — and to be fought for.
  — Jamil Smith, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
• Americans tend to think of slavery in terms of chattel slavery.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• The beauty of the harbor belies the horrors of the country’s history of chattel slavery.
  — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2023
• And, of course, Britain’s colonial economy hinged on chattel slavery.
  — TIME, 5 Oct. 2023
• Throughout the 19th century, as the United States grappled with the notion of Black personhood and the reality of chattel slavery, so too did the Methodists.
  — Laura Bullard, Vox, 14 May 2024
• That language in more than a dozen state constitutions is one of the lasting legacies of chattel slavery in the U.S., and the loophole gave way to other racist measures post-Civil War.
  — CBS News, 23 Feb. 2023
• Unlike American chattel slavery, bondage did not pass from parent to child.
  — Martha Anne Toll, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
• White writes that the angry Black woman trope is embedded deep in the fabric of U.S. history stemming from chattel slavery.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 3 Jan. 2024
• The Hideaway is a haven for Bearers — magic users reviled as second-class citizens and trapped in a system of chattel slavery — and the tavern owner asks Clive to help hand out food.
  — Josh Broadwell, Variety, 21 June 2023
• The history of family dinners in the Black community dates back to chattel slavery.
  — Chanda Reynolds, Essence, 15 Nov. 2023
• No other group in this country has undergone chattel slavery.
  — Mará Rose Williams, Kansas City Star, 31 May 2024
• Food traditions from West Africa came to the region through chattel slavery—in which the Cherokee Nation participated.
  — Rebecca Nagle, Bon Appétit, 14 Mar. 2023
• Earlier this year, Lee received the Presidential Medal of Freedom honoring her work to commemorate the end of chattel slavery in the nation.
  — Dhanika Pineda, ABC News, 19 June 2024
• Critics say California and San Francisco never endorsed chattel slavery, and there is no one alive today who owned slaves or was enslaved.
  — Janie Har, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2023
• Smith’s description of slavery in the lecture quoted above describes the characteristics not of Roman-era slavery, but of the severe chattel slavery such as was practiced in the Caribbean and the American colonies at the time.
  — Iain Murray, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
• Dawson said such policies are part of the dehumanizing legacy of chattel slavery, where people with darker skin and kinkier hair were never allowed to work indoors.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• In no way is advocating for free insulin comparable to chattel slavery.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 20 July 2023
• Festivities are as integral to the holiday as any effort to teach the history of Black liberation from chattel slavery.
  — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2024
• According to internal state comments, the reviewers believed the A.P. course’s depiction of chattel slavery did not promote both sides of history.
  — Ella Sherman, The New Republic, 29 Aug. 2023
• The exhibit contributes to an evolving dialogue about Boston’s connections to chattel slavery, and features new information on the lives of enslaved and freed people and insight on how the city can move forward.
  — Tiana Woodard, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
• The term prevents referring to African Americans within the context of criminality the chattel slavery system assigned them.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• The original Willy Wonka manuscript was rife with unapologetic themes of white supremacy, Samboism, and chattel slavery.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2023
• In her extensively footnoted monograph, In the Wake, Sharpe traces how the aftershock of chattel slavery still animates daily representations of Black life.
  — Hafizah Augustus Geter, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Feb. 2023
• In a nation built on chattel slavery and the brutal colonization of Indigenous communities, racist laws are an inescapable part of our legal tradition despite efforts at reform.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• But new interest from visitors, historians and armchair detectives alike is helping to unearth details of the painful past of this coastal city where about 40% of captive Africans arrived into American chattel slavery.
  — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 29 July 2023
• Convict leasing, also called peonage, juxtaposed the infrastructure of the Old English debtor’s prison with the barbarism of chattel slavery to bolster American capitalism.
  — Phillip Vance Smith, JSTOR Daily, 1 Feb. 2024
• Visiting the site that signifies the beginning of generations of chattel slavery in the U.S., and talking about the impacts of systematic enslavement could even violate some states’ educational policies.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2024
• Classical education does not flinch from describing the horrors of chattel slavery, religious violence, or other forms of despotism that litter the historical landscape.
  — Adam M. Carrington, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
• The task force previously voted to limit compensation to those who can directly trace their lineage to chattel slavery in the United States or those whose ancestors immigrated before 1900, excluding Black people who might have immigrated later.
  — Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 2023
• Black and brown Americans face unique disparities in access to education and intergenerational wealth that result from the rippling effects of chattel slavery and racial discrimination throughout U.S. history.
  — Joseph L. Graves, Scientific American, 18 July 2023

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024