The Only Use
chattel
in
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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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.†
Chpt 7chattel = owned property
Definitions:
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(1)
(chattel) owned property (in law, tangible property other than real estate)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)