Who Created the Myth that “White People” Invented Chattel Slavery?
5 min readJan 24, 2022
If you discuss racism online, you’ll meet people who insist chattel slavery — the treatment of slaves as movable property — was invented by “white people” in the 1600s when slavery was limited to people of African descent. For example, someone recently left this comment on one of my articles:
…prior to the introduction of chattel slavery by Americans…