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Wee but hard to imagine chattel slavery existing without a gigantic state apparatus making that happen, but sure, go off.
(In case it's not clear, I'm assuming you're referencing the American South, and any discussion of what occurred/occurs there cannot be disentangled from the history of state-driven slavery whatsoever, it is all fundamentally and inextricably the same interdependent thing)
Chattel slavery sure, but slavery in general predates the existence of nation states by centuries. That is beside the point. While lynching has become associated with chattel slavery, it refers to any extrajudicial vigilante execution. The term "Lynching" was coined during the American revolution after extrajudicial corporal punishment or killing of British Loyalists. It was later used quite a bit against Chinese and Mexicans in the American West. Current racial associations arose after the Civil War. (Justifiably so. I'm certainly not arguing that African Americans didn't get the worst of it.)