chattel slavery
noun
: slavery in which a person is owned as a chattel (see chattel sense 2)
chattel slave
noun
plural chattel slaves
Examples of chattel slavery in a Sentence
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The endless legacy of chattel slavery has meant that few Black Americans have been able to do this for their children.
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Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
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
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
In a presentation to the Berkeley Unified School District board Wednesday, the 18-member Reparations Task Force also called for developing additional curriculum on the history and legacy of chattel slavery.
—Sierra Lopez, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024
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
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
No other group in this country has undergone chattel slavery.
—Mará Rose Williams, Kansas City Star, 31 May 2024
Americans tend to think of slavery in terms of chattel slavery.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
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
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
In a presentation to the Berkeley Unified School District board Wednesday, the 18-member Reparations Task Force also called for developing additional curriculum on the history and legacy of chattel slavery.
—Sierra Lopez, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024
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
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
No other group in this country has undergone chattel slavery.
—Mará Rose Williams, Kansas City Star, 31 May 2024
Americans tend to think of slavery in terms of chattel slavery.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
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“Chattel slavery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chattel%20slavery. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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