chattel

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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

The draft communique says a majority of member states “share common historical experiences in relation to this abhorrent trade, chattel enslavement, the debilitation and dispossession of indigenous people”.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2024

It has been 159 years since the 13th Amendment was ratified, ending chattel slavery.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2024

Jim Downs: How did formerly enslaved people survive hours after they fled from chattel slavery?

From Scientific American • Nov. 2, 2023

Before democracy, chattel slavery in America was born.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander