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What does chattel slavery mean?

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Noun
  1. A form of servitude where the workers receive no compensations other than basic necessities and are coerced into labouring by threat of violence. Such slaves cannot resign on their own will.
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In the U. S., the barbaric death penalty is the legacy of chattel slavery, the lynch rope made legal.
Though chattel slavery has disappeared, Ms. Martin emphasizes that the exploitation of immigrant labor has not.
Since the abolition of chattel slavery this has been indefeasible except for crime.
Labor exploitation includes traditional chattel slavery, forced labor, and debt bondage.
Within a century, chattel slavery ceased to exist in virtually every modern nation.
No one in this world today would defend chattel slavery in any public forum or allow it under any legal code.

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