How to Use chattel slavery in a Sentence

chattel slavery

noun
  • Americans tend to think of slavery in terms of chattel slavery.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Smalls displayed his guile and courage in the midst of chattel slavery and the Civil War.
    — Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 10 June 2025
  • No other group in this country has undergone chattel slavery.
    — Mará Rose Williams, Kansas City Star, 31 May 2024
  • No other group in this country has undergone chattel slavery.
    — Mará Rose Williams, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2025
  • And, of course, Britain’s colonial economy hinged on chattel slavery.
    — TIME, 5 Oct. 2023
  • And yet, chattel slavery was not peculiar to the United States.
    — Ana Lucia Araujo / Made By History, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Unlike American chattel slavery, bondage did not pass from parent to child.
    — Martha Anne Toll, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Since chattel slavery began here, Black worth and Black wealth have always been something to be fought over — and to be fought for.
    — Jamil Smith, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
  • The beauty of the harbor belies the horrors of the country’s history of chattel slavery.
    — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2023
  • The endless legacy of chattel slavery has meant that few Black Americans have been able to do this for their children.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
  • In no way is advocating for free insulin comparable to chattel slavery.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 20 July 2023
  • Such differences have persisted well beyond the demise of chattel slavery and the repeal of Jim Crow laws.
    — Kathleen Frydl, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The history of family dinners in the Black community dates back to chattel slavery.
    — Chanda Reynolds, Essence, 15 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • His family history shows how violence and rape in the era of chattel slavery can be felt over the generations, both for the family of the enslavers and for the enslaved.
    — Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2025
  • But ancestral lines after arrival can be directly traced to the American South, due to the logistics of chattel slavery.
    — Ebony Flake, Essence, 28 June 2024
  • His emphasis on diversity and on the economic disparities and the long-term impact of chattel slavery is out of political fashion now.
    — Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Critics say California and San Francisco never endorsed chattel slavery, and there is no one alive today who owned slaves or was enslaved.
    — Janie Har, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Forcing people in chains to work in fields or at wildfires is not meaningfully different from, or morally superior to, nineteenth-century chattel slavery.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025
  • More to Explore Decades before eugenics peaked around the turn of the twentieth century, eugenic thinking lay at the foundation of chattel slavery.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The 1926 Convention focused on chattel slavery, which is the legal ownership of one person by another.
    — Nicole F. Roberts, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • America's great antebellum dispute, that over chattel slavery, similarly concerned the nature of the human person.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The Hideaway is a haven for Bearers — magic users reviled as second-class citizens and trapped in a system of chattel slavery — and the tavern owner asks Clive to help hand out food.
    — Josh Broadwell, Variety, 21 June 2023
  • Food traditions from West Africa came to the region through chattel slavery—in which the Cherokee Nation participated.
    — Rebecca Nagle, Bon Appétit, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The notion that these reparations were intended to benefit all descendants of chattel slavery regardless of race ignores the undeniable evidence to the contrary.
    — Andrew Quinio, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025
  • For Jewish communities, the Exodus represents liberation from chattel slavery and the birth of a nation grounded in faith and freedom.
    — Jesse Jackson Jr, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
  • In a nation built on chattel slavery and the brutal colonization of Indigenous communities, racist laws are an inescapable part of our legal tradition despite efforts at reform.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The term prevents referring to African Americans within the context of criminality the chattel slavery system assigned them.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Add to that the vile conditions via transport to America and elements of chattel slavery, which included, but were not limited to, beatings, lynchings, and the raping of women and children.
    — Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2025

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