chattels

Example Sentences

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As Union troops advanced and slavery crumbled, planters usually asked their former chattels to remain at work, promising them wages at harvest time.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

And a trek back to the motorway through that landscape of muddied piles of ex-goods and former chattels doesn’t appeal.

From The Guardian • Apr. 4, 2017

Excluded in the sale but available for separate purchase were the household furniture, machinery and "the chattels within the house."

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2015

Whatever tragedy befell them, Atlantic creoles did not arrive in the New World as deracinated chattels stripped of their past and without resources to meet the future.

From Slate • May 18, 2015

On the way we meet the fleeing inhabitants trundling their goods and chattels along with them in wheelbarrows, in perambulators, and on their backs.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque