She is twenty-one, and women are not now the mere chattels they once were.

Your horse, your ox, your kine, your dog, are not mere chattels, but sentient souls.

Men, women, and children were at their mercy, and were treated as mere chattels-theproperty of their rulers.

The law held them to be mere chattels, and he treated them as such, without any regard to the rights of humanity.