Chattels

We repeat it, -- public opinion made them slaves, and keeps them slaves; in other words, it sunk them from men to chattels, and now, forsooth, this same public opinion will see to it, that these _chattels_ are treated like _men! ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)

I did not appear but through this agent I forced the foreclosure, and but few days (no more, believe me, than the law allowed) were given John Claverhouse to remove his goods and chattels from the premises. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It has been proposed that all data crimes could be dealth with as trespass to chattels, where the chattels is the server hardware. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Immediately we found that the privileges of independent labor were open to them, schools were established in which their sons might obtain an education that would raise them to an intellectual position never reached by their fathers; and at length full political rights were conferred upon those who a few short years, or rather months, before, had been called chattels, and things to be bought and sold in any market. ❋ William Still (N/A)

Immediately we found that the privileges of independent labour were open to them, schools were established in which their sons might obtain an education that would raise them to an intellectual position never reached by their fathers; and at length full political rights were conferred upon those who a few short years, or rather months before, had been called chattels, and things, to be bought and sold in any market. ❋ John Bright (1850)

'chattels' -- I shall pay for that mistake one day or another, I am convinced -- and I very much fear that you would soon discover what one fault of mine is, if you were to hear anyone assert such a right in my presence. ❋ Robert Browning (1850)

Allegations by James, 46, an Old Etonian who has barely exchanged words with his father since storming out of the family home following a Christmas Day row in 1984, and his sisters Annabella and Laura, is that "chattels" including a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds called The Calling of Samuel have gone missing and were misappropriated by their father. ❋ Mark Hollingsworth (2010)

In a will written February 10, 1734, Blaikley bequeathed "unto my loving wife Catherine Blaikley, all my whole estate of lands, houses, Negroes, goods, and chattels, meaning my houses and lots in Williamsburg and 50 acres of land in Powhatan." ❋ Maggiemac (2008)

They seemed to regard the townsfolk as their lawful prey; having been freed from their attentions for the past year, their "chattels" were not pleased with their return. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1998)

Why not contend that the _wives_ of the ancient fathers of the faithful were their "chattels," and used as ready change at a pinch; and thence deduce the rights of modern husbands? ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)

His petition of December, 1737, in regard to the "chattels" in his train, addressed to the General Court, reads: ❋ Mary Caroline Crawford (N/A)

In 1728 we find _hoop-skirts_ and _negro girls_ and other "chattels" advertised for sale in the same shop! ❋ Various (N/A)

Captain Meaher, though born in Gardiner, Maine, had removed, when a mere lad, to the Gulf States, and accumulated quite a fortune for those days; a large portion of which was in "chattels" employed on his half dozen steamboats, or on cotton plantations in the interior of the state, and in lumbering among the pines and cypress lands near the coast. ❋ Unknown (1897)

Nevertheless they were "chattels" (Anglice, "cattle"), -- in the eye of the law, property subject to seizure and sale. ❋ Unknown (1885)

The claimant, loath to lose these four human "chattels," carried the case to the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, where at its March term, 1852, it was reversed, and a decree rendered that these negroes were not entitled to freedom. ❋ John George Nicolay (1866)

Don't talk to the [chattel], [talk at] the chattel. Have you seen my chattel? [Shut your mouth] chattel! ❋ Bob Esserfoot (2004)

She [owned] many [chattels]. She [collared] him as Her chattel. ❋ Ezada Sinn (2021)

He told a women that her dress made her [look fat], so she kicked him [square] in the [chattels]. ❋ Johndar (2013)