chattel slavery

(noun)

people are treated as the personal property, chattels, of an owner and are bought and sold as commodities

Related Terms

  • neutrophil
  • Underground Railway
  • manumission

Examples of chattel slavery in the following topics:

  • Chesapeake Slavery

    • Although African chattel slavery was a more expensive investment that white indentured servitude, it guaranteed a lifetime service of free labor.
    • A great deal of support for the system of chattel slavery came from the wealthy white's fear of rebellions from the labor force.
    • Replacing indentured servitude with black slavery diminished these risks, alleviating the reliance on white indentured servants, who were often dissatisfied and troublesome, and creating a caste of racially defined laborers whose movements were strictly controlled.
    • Racial slavery even served to heal some of the divisions between wealthy and poor whites who could now unite as members of a “superior” racial group.
    • While laws in the tobacco colonies had already made slavery a legal institution, new laws were passed toward the end of the 17th century that severely curtailed black freedom and laid the foundation for racial slavery.
  • Slavery

    • An example of modern slavery is much of the sex industry in Thailand.
    • Chattel slavery, so named because people are treated as the personal property, chattels, of an owner and are bought and sold as commodities, is the original form of slavery.
    • When taking these chattels across national borders, it is referred to as human trafficking, especially when these slaves provide sexual services.
    • It is the most widespread form of slavery today.
    • Slavery is rare among hunter-gatherer populations, as slavery is a system of social stratification.
  • Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement

    • Slavery, including chattel slavery, was a legal institution in the US from the colonial period until the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) and Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution (1865).
    • Throughout this period many people worked to end slavery.
    • Abolitionists used several arguments against slavery.
    • Support for slavery remained the strongest in the southern states where slavery was an important economic institution for cotton and other agricultural industries strongest in the South.
    • Describe the history of slavery in the United States and early efforts at abolition
  • Slavery in the Antebellum Period

    • Slavery existed in the United States as a legal institution from the early colonial period.
    • Race was a critical element of chattel slavery.
    • Slave women were at high risk for rape and sexual abuse, a practice partially rooted in the patriarchal Southern culture of the era that perceived all women, black or white, as property or chattel.
    • In 1862, the federal government made abolition of slavery a war goal.
    • Describe how slavery became the foundational economic institution in the antebellum South
  • Slavery and Politics

    • Although Jeffersonians extolled the virtues of the independent yeoman, they also were strongly in favor of slavery.
    • Jefferson considered slavery culturally important—as it was in democratic Greece and other societies of antiquity—and viewed it as central to the "Southern way of life."
    • In agreement with many of his contemporaries, Jefferson believed slavery served to protect black people, whom he viewed as inferior or incapable of taking care of themselves.
    • His republican worldview stressed the austerity, self-reliance, and independence engendered by small-scale agricultural farming but neglected to highlight and justify the brutal and coercive system of chattel slavery that formed the basis for large-scale plantation production.
    • Analyze the coherence and contradictions of Jefferson's positions on slavery and equality
  • Slavery and Liberty

    • The Constitution of the United States was drafted in 1787, and included several provisions regarding slavery.
    • As further protection for slavery, Section 2 of Article IV prohibited citizens from providing assistance to escaping slaves and required the return of chattel property to owners.
    • As a result, the territories south of the Ohio River (and Missouri) continued to have full slavery.
    • What developed was a Northern geographic area that generally shared an anti-slavery culture.
    • Territories and states which had not specifically banned slavery are colored red/pink.
  • Legal Changes to Slavery: 1777-1804

    • As further protection for slavery, the constitutional delegates approved a clause which prohibited citizens from providing assistance to escaped slaves and required the return of chattel property to owners.
    • While the Constitution protected the slave trade through 1808, state legislatures in the North drafted several anti-slavery measures that challenged slavery as an American institution.
    • Through the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, slavery was prohibited in the territories northwest of the Ohio River, while territories south of it (and Missouri) did allow slavery.
    • With the anti-slavery movement gaining momentum, defenders of slavery such as John Randolph and John C.
    • Describe the changes to the institution of slavery after the American Revolution
  • African Americans and the Republic

    • Tens of thousands used the turmoil of war to escape from slavery.
    • Convention delegates agreed to incorporate provisions supporting and protecting slavery in the Constitution to placate slaveholding states that refused to join the Union if slavery were not allowed.
    • As further protection for slavery, the delegates approved Section 2 of Article IV, which prohibited citizens from providing assistance to escaping slaves, and required the return of chattel property to owners.
    • He took actions that both advanced and limited slavery in the United States.
    • Through the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, slavery was prohibited in the territories northwest of the Ohio River, while territories south of it (and Missouri) did allow slavery.
  • The Legal Ramifications for Slavery

    • Slavery under the new Constitution was a matter of conflict; several Southern states refused to join the Union if slavery was not permitted.
    • Among the most controversial issues confronting the delegates at the Philadelphia Convention was that of slavery.
    • Whether slavery was to be regulated under the new Constitution was a matter of conflict between the North and South, with several Southern states refusing to join the Union if slavery was not allowed.
    • As further protection for slavery, the delegates approved Section 2 of Article IV, which prohibited citizens from providing assistance to escaping slaves and required the return of chattel property to owners.
    • The high percentages of slavery in the south made the Three-Fifths Compromise extremely important.
  • Jefferson, Slavery, and Race

    • From this time onward, Jefferson took on the duties of owning and supervising his large chattel estate.
    • It prohibited slavery by 1800 in the Northwest Territory.
    • On April 23, Congress accepted Jefferson's ordinance; however, it did not prohibit slavery in all the territories.
    • After 1785, Jefferson remained publicly silent on or did little to change slavery within the United States.
    • Evaluate Thomas Jefferson’s changing views on slavery in the United States
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