Lysander Spooner

A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one degree above that of a chattel slave. He may live; but he can live only as the servant of others; compelled to perform such labor, and to perform it at such prices, as they may see fit to dictate.

American Philosopher

Greg Grandin

Starting in the early 1800s, Southerners in the United States began to defend slavery as their 'peculiar institution,' and northerners didn't mind, since the phrase suggested that chattel bondage was quarantined from the rest of the nation: that it was, or soon would be, a relic of its past and would not define its future.

American Historian

William Lloyd Garrison

I am accused of using hard language. I admit the charge. I have not been able to find a soft word to describe villainy or to identify the perpetrator of it. The man who makes a chattel of his brother - what is he? The man who keeps back the hire of his laborers by fraud - what is he?

American Journalist

Jeffrey Kluger

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

American Writer

Clive Sinclair

Many years ago, when I lived in the mini-Siberia they call East Anglia, I was awakened in the early hours by the sound of a pantechnicon being loaded. Peeping through the curtains, I observed the grocer doing a runner with all his chattels and his family.

British Author

Kehinde Wiley

There is - and always will be - the legacy of chattel slavery in this nation, an obsession with racial and gender differences, but I think that, at its best, this nation is capable of creating standards for itself and reaching towards those standards.

American Artist

Frederick Douglass

Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.

American Author

Ross Douthat

America's gravest moral evil, chattel slavery, was defeated by an authoritarian president in a religious civil war, not by proceduralism or constitutional debate.

Jeanne Phillips

Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just.

John Bercow

Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property.

British Politician

Often used in legal situations to discuss personal property or assets.

Legal Context

Remember, chattel does not include land or buildings, it's moveable property.

Excludes Real Estate

Chattel can be used as security for a loan, known as a chattel mortgage.

Secured Loans

Be aware that this historical use of 'chattel' reflects a time when human rights were violated.

Human Rights

Using 'chattel' for people can be upsetting due to its association with slavery.

Sensitive History

The term 'chattel' for humans is archaic and not applicable to modern ethical standards.

Not Modern

 and because I catch her by surprise you see the black key and turn around and said you came from you yeah I came from me but the purpose says you don't chase the chattel right look how she's act reading me now how she is evaluating me now so what she did right now is it came all the way here and look

Shadow-Chasing Dogs PIPE...

 Born into chattel slavery, Araminta, or Minty, was the fifth of nine children. Two of Minty’s older sisters were sold to a chain gang. Even as a small child, Minty was hired out to different owners, who subjected her to whippings and punishment.

The breathtaking courage...

 and locking them into our particularly vicious brand of chattel slavery, and laws that gave even the poorest white people benefits, not big benefits in material terms but the right to not be enslaved for life,

The lie that invented...

 recently killed chattel stag the jackal must work quickly to make the most of this chance the leopard could chase him off the kill at any moment