Chattel

Chattel slavery Chattel slavery, also called traditional slavery, is so named because people are treated as the chattel (personal property) of the owner and are bought and sold as if they were commodities.

It is an owner's right to get tax benefits for chattel, and there are businesses that specialize in appraising personal property, or chattel.

Darity said if the $14 trillion was distributed evenly across 40 million people whose ancestors were in the chattel slavery system it would equal about $350K per person.

There is something missing from the reparations coverage and the argument that reparations should be paid to “repair” the damage done by the system of chattel slavery and legal racial subordination.

It’s a narrative that dates back to the first technological revolution, rooted in agriculture, from which Black people were excluded due to the horrors of chattel slavery.

To the Zionists everything that existed in that vast space of land and everyone in it belonged to them as treasure, chattel, vassals and slaves.

I’m literally embarrassed that this is the argument put forth against a project assessing the legacy of racialized chattel slavery.

Once people are out, the powers that be don't have to seem to care about their half aersed crap shacks and Chinese produced chattel.

The ADOS policy page details the specific measures the group supports, including reparations for the descendants of people held in chattel slavery, government subsidies for health care and education, and affirmative action for slave descendants.

The chattel slavery of Africans was brutal, and abhorrent to modern sensibilities, and still to be found in some obscure parts of the world.

Even the biblical meaning of adultery — it was a violation of the ten commandments only when it was theft from another man’s chattel property — sexual relations outside the bounds of marriage were not adultery, relations with another man’s wife was.

In fact, the debtor is not really the customer, but a chattel in a usurious business arrangement between school and Wall Street, with costs socialized by the federal government whose policies they buy.

As Tibaut did not have the full purchase price, Ford held a $400 chattel mortgage on Northup.

Callahan argues that, beyond verse 16, "nothing in the text conclusively indicates that Onesimus was ever the chattel of the letter's chief addressee.

Helots did not have voting rights, although compared to non-Greek chattel slaves in other parts of Greece they were relatively privileged.

Marginally, both chattel and wage slaves may become bosses; sometimes by working hard.

Peonage, in short, was not chattel slavery.

Sunken ships, once being moving objects, were legally treated as chattel and were awarded to those who could first raise them.

The medieval Church held that Christians should not own fellow Christians as slaves, so chattel slavery diminished as a practice throughout northern Europe.

Today, chattel slavery is unlawful in all countries, but a person may still be described as a slave if he or she is forced to work for another person without an ability on their part to unilaterally terminate the arrangement.