chattel

Example Sentences

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It frustrates Harris, 45, that reparations opponents won’t acknowledge that life for Black people did not improve with the abolition of chattel slavery in 1865.

From Seattle Times

And no trailer, caravan, boat “or other similar chattel to be brought onto the Property or to be parked in any such parking space without the consent of His Royal Highness.”

From Washington Post

The chair is a symbol, said Mr. Hayden, “of the American Dream’, and a level of personal choice that actively looks past the chattels” so prominent in Ward’s original.

From New York Times

They also broadened conversations of slavery, including mention of chattel slavery.

From Washington Post

“It wasn’t really a town. The name was adopted because the first residents had all been freed from chattel slavery and they wanted to be known as a town of Free People.”

From Washington Post