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In that culture, family members were legally dependent upon the oldest male, but they were not chattel.chattel = owned property
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When she was a slave, he was restrained from harming her because she was another's valuable chattel.chattel = property
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The proposed law applies to both chattels and intangible property.
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So Simon, having forgotten his teacher's dictum on the possession of human chattels, bought three slaves and with their aid established a homestead on the banks of the Alabama River some forty miles above Saint Stephens. (source)chattels = owned property
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Before now they didn't kill you because you was somebody chattel. (source)chattel = property
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In entering upon the duties of a slaveholder, she did not seem to perceive that I sustained to her the relation of a mere chattel, and that for her to treat me as a human being was not only wrong, but dangerously so. (source)chattel = owned property
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Chattel slaves had once trod those boards bearing food and drink on silver trays.† (source)Chattel = owned property
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Not all his servants and chattels are wraiths!† (source)chattels = things that are tangible and owned
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A man should be able to do as he likes with his own chattel.† (source)chattel = owned property
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The workers departed, taking with them their goods and chattels, leaving only the empty huts behind.† (source)chattels = things that are tangible and owned
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"Women are not chattel, to be traded off like cattle or hogs!" she'd thundered out.† (source)chattel = owned property
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On the way we meet the fleeing inhabitants trundling their goods and chattels along with them in wheelbarrows, in perambulators, and on their backs.† (source)chattels = things that are tangible and owned
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Chattel to be traded like livestock.† (source)Chattel = owned property
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The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon his chattels.† (source)chattels = things that are tangible and owned
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Then, after they siphoned off my money, my "feminist" parents let Nick bundle me off to Missouri like I was some piece of chattel, some mail-order bride, some property exchange.† (source)chattel = owned property
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In the meantime Marian and Izz Huett had journeyed onward with the chattels of the ploughman in the direction of their land of Canaan—the Egypt of some other family who had left it only that morning.† (source)chattels = things that are tangible and owned
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