Chattel slavery — Social Studies definition
A system legally treating enslaved people as property, often with hereditary status.
Where it is taught
- Atlantic Slavery: Institutions, Resistance & Evidence — Knowledge, Labor & the World Around 1750, Global History & Geography I: Early Societies to c. 1750, Grade 9
In use
Racialized hereditary chattel slavery treated people as property and restricted freedom through law and violence.
Atlantic Slavery: Institutions, Resistance & Evidence