English

Noun
human chattel

1. Human beings considered property, that is, slaves.

Quotations
1863, "[I]t makes the relation, between father and mother, that of mere agents for increasing the gains of him who claims a right of property in the human chattel, whose offspring, by law, are his[.]" — The Story of the Life of John Anderson, the Fugitive Slave edited by Harper Twelvetrees.

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