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The ancestors of these black people had been savages in Africa; and since then they had been chattel slaves, or had been held down by a ...

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chattel
 n.  personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
Classic Sentence:
1  The ancestors of these black people had been savages in Africa; and since then they had been chattel slaves, or had been held down by a community ruled by the traditions of slavery.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
2  This same gentleman, having heard of the fame of George's invention, took a ride over to the factory, to see what this intelligent chattel had been about.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  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.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  Until then, and until we are at sea,' observed Mr. Micawber, with a glance of intelligence at me, 'Mr. Peggotty and myself will constantly keep a double look-out together, on our goods and chattels.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 57. THE EMIGRANTS
5  Miss Ophelia seated herself resolutely on the lately vanquished trunk, and marshalling all her goods and chattels in fine military order, seemed resolved to defend them to the last.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence:
1  What pushes this matter to the sublime is the reality the world is battling a terror threat which has given license to the authorities to treat ordinary citizens like chattel.