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Comment author: [deleted] 01 July 2015 03:31:04PM 0 points [-]

This is true but also true that non-chattel slavery used to have a lot of other names as well, serfdom, indentured servitude etc. I generally don't know many examples where non-chattel slavery did not have some other name as well.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 01 July 2015 03:48:00PM 0 points [-]

No, I am not talking about serfs and indentured servants. I am talking people called slaves. Almost every example where you think slaves are chattel is because you are wrong about history. For example, the great diversity of slaves in the Bible are not chattel.