Meanings of human chattel in English

But the sexagenarian human chattel was mercilessly scrutinized.

Do you think I am a slave or a human chattel to be bartered away like that?

Even if they had, Marcus preferred to liberate the most desperate of the human chattel offered for sale.

Tell me, Miss Emmy Lou, how does it feel to be a human chattel, with no prospect of emancipation?

He had his horse fed, but gave no food to his human chattel, who remained in the wagon cold and hungry.

He was not her slave-shemight indeed have been considered the human chattel-buthe was the slave of his need of her.

The Vinyl Word: Joe Queenan on Brown Sugar, surely the catchiest song ever written about slave owners having their way with their human chattel.

The great Pomponius Atticus himself was a dealer in human chattels.

Some ivory was offered for sale; but the chief traffic was in human chattels.

The chiefs showed but little inclination to trade, their traffic being chiefly in human chattels.

If their human chattels once reached his outpost, there was indeed little hope of their reclamation.

The figures tell their own tale of the mounting preposterousness of any calculated exhaustion of the human chattels.

Their human chattels had been put up at auction, and among them was the title to our beautiful fugitive.

The free trader would even abolish the tariff of two dollars and a half, imposed on human chattels who land at Castle Garden.

Twenty human chattels, whom he brought with him, became free by the law of 1817; the remainder were left on his plantation, in Maryland.

He might easily on the contrary find quite ordinary slave owners who had a very decided sense of responsibility in regard to their human chattels.