All 3 Uses of
chattel
in
The Souls of Black Folk
- If Sam seems a favorable subject, he and the merchant go to a lawyer, and Sam executes a chattel mortgage on his mule and wagon in return for seed and a week's rations.†
Chpt 8chattel = owned property
- The security offered for such transactions—a crop and chattel mortgage—may at first seem slight.†
Chpt 8 *
- The long system of repression and degradation of the Negro tended to emphasize the elements of his character which made him a valuable chattel: courtesy became humility, moral strength degenerated into submission, and the exquisite native appreciation of the beautiful became an infinite capacity for dumb suffering.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
owned property (in law, tangible property other than real estate)