chattel

Wade is just the beginning of the right-wing’s plans to make women second-class citizens and a type of chattel and the property of their husbands, fathers and the other men in their lives.

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”.

In addition to the count for injunctive relief — which was filed against all the defendants — counts of conversion, trespass to chattel and battery were filed against Belanski.

"When you were a contract player, you didn’t have control over your career . . . You were basically chattel."

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