chattel slavery

[ chat-l sley-vuh-reesleyv-ree ]

noun

1. the enslaving and owning of human beings and their offspring as property, able to be bought, sold, and forced to work without wages, as distinguished from other systems of forced, unpaid, or low-wage labor also considered to be slavery.

Word History and Origins

Origin of chattel slavery¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

A generation or two before her, the family line is bludgeoned by chattel slavery in antebellum Alabama and Louisiana.

From Time

Their investment in chattel slavery allowed some of the most influential members of these tribes to increase their wealth and maintain their participation in the cotton economy.

From Time

Minimizing those obstacles can obscure the astounding accomplishment that the overthrow of chattel slavery actually was, and gloss too easily over the lingering damage done by its power and violence.

From Washington Post

Within a century, chattel slavery ceased to exist in virtually every modern nation.

From The Daily Beast

A hundred years ago we had chattel slavery firmly fixed as the industrial system of one-half of these United States.

From Project Gutenberg

Military coercion prolonged chattel slavery, and by so doing brought what is known as the dark ages upon the world.

From Project Gutenberg

Ans.: Chattel slavery, serfdom, or feudal slavery and wage slavery.

From Project Gutenberg

We are the modern abolitionists fighting against wage slavery as the other abolitionists fought against chattel slavery.

From Project Gutenberg

There can be a slavery more odious, more galling, than mere chattel slavery.

From Project Gutenberg