chattel slavery

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

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noun

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.

First recorded in 1900–05

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

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

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

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

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

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

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