Chattel slavery is banned everywhere in the world, yet there are more people enslaved than ever before in history. Anti-slavery campaigners estimate that between 20 and 70 million men, women and children are enslaved around the world.
Chattel slavery exists when a person can be legally bought and sold, like cattle. Chattel slavery also exists when the child of a slave is also a slave. In the antebellum South (of the United States), the son or daughter of a free man and a slave, for …
