Not wishing to add any words or explanations to CM's article but the point is that the term 'Chattel Slavery' is part of an attempt to inculcate as fact that only white people, somehow genetically but most assuredly racially DNA-predisposed, are guilty of the worst kind of slavery.

It's not just historically inaccurate, it's racist.

And therein lies the rub: one cannot on one hand decry the centuries long stereotypical racial profiling of black people while on the other hand engage in the same game when profiling all white people.

All cultures engaged in slavery for economic advantage.

For example, slavery in the US was no different than the slavery practiced for hundreds if not thousands of years all along the pre-and-post- contact North West Coast of the Americas.

Slaves were traded as commodities, in some cases being worth cedar boxes of the much valued oolichan oil. Sad to say that both a male or female slave were not worth as much as a canoe.

Except for this difference, sorry to add, slaves held by the Nootka and the Haida in particular, would often sacrifice a slave during special 'potlatches'.