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chattel

[chat-l] / ˈtʃæt l /


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Ms. Southon has worked equally hard to find surviving traces that offer us glimpses into what it was like to be living chattel under Roman rule.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

He stresses that the entire architecture of chattel enslavement was curated by Western slave-owning powers, who simply utilised local actors to help carry out their plans.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

But again, these chapters codify the Black American experience as one defined by pain and primarily linked to chattel slavery.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2025

Within months of her 1836 arrival in New York, Ernestine Rose, a Polish-born rabbi’s daughter, began traveling around the United States condemning women’s subjugation, economic inequality, organized religion, and chattel slavery.

From Slate Apr. 10, 2025

Before democracy, chattel slavery in America was born.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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