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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While chattel slavery was legally abolished, African Americans continued to endure systemic oppression through laws like the Black Codes, which restricted basic rights such as earning fair wages and owning property.
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Lenwood V. Long, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
But his attempt to sell the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since chattel slavery was upended by Musk himself, who publicly attacked Trump's embrace of exorbitant deficit spending.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
These memorials in Senegal and Benin mark the locations where Africans were shipped away from their homelands into chattel slavery.
—Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Time, 21 May 2025
No other group in this country has undergone chattel slavery.
—Mará Rose Williams, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2025
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Lenwood V. Long, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
But his attempt to sell the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since chattel slavery was upended by Musk himself, who publicly attacked Trump's embrace of exorbitant deficit spending.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
These memorials in Senegal and Benin mark the locations where Africans were shipped away from their homelands into chattel slavery.
—Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Time, 21 May 2025
No other group in this country has undergone chattel slavery.
—Mará Rose Williams, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Chattel slavery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chattel%20slavery. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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