Meanings of human chattels in English

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.

Among the numerous passengers who came on board at Rodney was another slave-trader, with nine human chattels which he was conveying to the Southern market.

"Ah," said Napoleon, laughing, "do you not know that the trade in human chattels is now prohibited in our civilized states?