chattel
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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
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
Around 75% of mobile-home chattel loans come from the industry’s five biggest lenders, according to the 2021 report from the CFPB.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2025
They had only the afternoon to learn the ways of chattel.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Vocabulary lists containing chattel
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 19–24
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