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chattel

noun as in property

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The roughly 400-year-old specimen of spreading and enveloping branches was just a sapling at chattel slavery’s 1619 arrival in North America.

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

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Among Wilson’s controversies are comments he made about chattel slavery in the 1990s, when he claimed there was a “mutual affection between master and slave.”

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Around 43% of mobile homes are secured with personal property loans, or “chattel” loans, in which the only collateral used against the loan is the asset itself.

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White Christian Nationalism supported White-on-Black chattel slavery and saw it as part of the “civilizing” mission for Christians.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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