chattel
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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
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
"The forensic accountants had done their work and came out with this deep connection to African chattel enslavement. Once something is brought to the light, you can't push it back into the darkness."
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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
Even after his release from chattel slavery, the nation grew over him, submerging him.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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But suits for trespass to chattels generally require some proof of damage.
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
In his will, George Washington offered freedom to his own human chattels upon the death of his wife, Martha.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
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Many of these chattels were on their way to ruin by the late rains, their veneer being invaded by the water and swelling so that the wood wrinkled and buckled.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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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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