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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In a general sense, many of us knew how instrumental cotton was to the business of chattel slavery.
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Cierra Black, Essence, 9 July 2025
The Digital Lawyer, Data Protection Officer and Coach is particularly worried about the high numbers of Black and Caribbean customers who turn to direct-to-consumer genetic testing to access ancestral information that a legacy of colonialism and chattel slavery has denied them.
—Abigail Dubiniecki, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
In a nation that abolished chattel slavery just two decades ago after the Civil War, opposition to a type of labor that seemed to resemble slavery was a powerful argument.
— Made By History, Time, 26 Mar. 2025
Donegan also critiques Dworkin’s penchant for comparing the plight of 20th-century American women to the atrocities of chattel slavery and the Holocaust.
—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
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Cierra Black, Essence, 9 July 2025
The Digital Lawyer, Data Protection Officer and Coach is particularly worried about the high numbers of Black and Caribbean customers who turn to direct-to-consumer genetic testing to access ancestral information that a legacy of colonialism and chattel slavery has denied them.
—Abigail Dubiniecki, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
In a nation that abolished chattel slavery just two decades ago after the Civil War, opposition to a type of labor that seemed to resemble slavery was a powerful argument.
— Made By History, Time, 26 Mar. 2025
Donegan also critiques Dworkin’s penchant for comparing the plight of 20th-century American women to the atrocities of chattel slavery and the Holocaust.
—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
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“Chattel slavery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chattel%20slavery. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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