chattel

The leaders of the Free Soil Party, which ultimately formed part of the Republican Party, opposed the allocation of land conquered from Mexico to giant plantations worked by chattel slaves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Modern monarchs have to various degrees expressed remorse for Britain's central role in chattel slavery, but none has yet formally apologised, and debt-laden London has balked at the idea of financial compensation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

This year marks the sixth anniversary of the U.S. honoring Juneteenth as a federal holiday, and 161 years since the day chattel slavery was considered to have ended in this country.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026

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

There were many freemen in South Carolina who’d relocated for the so-called opportunities, but they’d served their time as chattel.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

That find was the common-law tort of trespass to chattels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

For the first two decades, the firm specialised in managing probate house clearances, cessation of business asset disposals and private chattels.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Among the chattels were two desks, one his, one hers, extras from a summer house they let go.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2019

Slave society also linked liberty to the power of command, for true freemen gave orders while chattels followed them.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

The three surviving fiery fingers had not been sold yet, but they were chattels of the Lord of Light and could count on being bought back by some red temple.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin