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plural chattels
1
: an item of tangible movable or immovable property except real estate and things (such as buildings) connected with real property
These statutes do not apply to personal property; for chattels, an oral statement of donative intent plus delivery still suffices.
William M. McGovern, Jr. et al.
—sometimes used as a mass noun William M. McGovern, Jr. et al.2
: an enslaved person held as the legal property of another : bondman
He had struck down my personality, had subjected me to his will, made property of my body and soul, reduced me to a chattel … Frederick Douglass
Frederick DouglassSome, most notably the Quakers, hoped that moral suasion would convince slaveholders to free their chattels. Mary Beth Norton et al.
— often used as a mass noun see also chattel slavery Mary Beth Norton et al.
Example Sentences
an amendment to end the keeping of humans as chattel packed up all her chattels and moved to a new state
Recent Examples on the Web The federal government offered to pay slave owners close to market rates for each of their human chattel, thereby bring slavery to an end without a resort to armed conflict. William Darity, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2021 Silver coins found previously in the area have mostly been Arab dirhams, used by Muslim merchants to pay for human chattel. New York Times, 12 July 2021 And less acknowledged, two centuries of ships sailing from here, financed by the Boston elite, to move human chattel and goods around the Atlantic and Caribbean. New York Times, 2 July 2021 Vanessa Claire Stewart, who plays Dora, a rich Southern belle infatuated with George, and Ratts, the captain of a steamer open to buying some human chattel, works her costumes to funny effects. Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2021 This virtual event will feature a special storytelling-hour featuring Mr. Delbert Richardson about the resistance of his ancestors during the periods of American chattel slavery and Jim Crow. D'shonda Brown, Essence, 10 June 2021 While a site of a major chattel slavery market, Alexandria also was home to generations of free and proud Black Americans and continues to be an integrated—while gentrifying— source of community. Kristen Jeffers, House Beautiful, 4 June 2021 Other moments, it's devastatingly marked by the vicious anti-Black brutality that American chattel slavery is best known for. Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 25 May 2021 Wouldn't Jenkins' next announced project being something involving American chattel slavery feel like a regression to some? Marcus Jones, EW.com, 14 May 2021 See More
William Darity, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2021 Silver coins found previously in the area have mostly been Arab dirhams, used by Muslim merchants to pay for human chattel. New York Times, 12 July 2021 And less acknowledged, two centuries of ships sailing from here, financed by the Boston elite, to move human chattel and goods around the Atlantic and Caribbean. New York Times, 2 July 2021 Vanessa Claire Stewart, who plays Dora, a rich Southern belle infatuated with George, and Ratts, the captain of a steamer open to buying some human chattel, works her costumes to funny effects. Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2021 This virtual event will feature a special storytelling-hour featuring Mr. Delbert Richardson about the resistance of his ancestors during the periods of American chattel slavery and Jim Crow. D'shonda Brown, Essence, 10 June 2021 While a site of a major chattel slavery market, Alexandria also was home to generations of free and proud Black Americans and continues to be an integrated—while gentrifying— source of community. Kristen Jeffers, House Beautiful, 4 June 2021 Other moments, it's devastatingly marked by the vicious anti-Black brutality that American chattel slavery is best known for. Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 25 May 2021 Wouldn't Jenkins' next announced project being something involving American chattel slavery feel like a regression to some? Marcus Jones, EW.com, 14 May 2021 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English chatel "movable possession," often in plural chateles, chateus, borrowed from Anglo-French chatel "property, goods, wealth" (also continental Old French), going back to Medieval Latin capitāle "movable property, riches," noun derivative from neuter of capitālis "of the head, chief, principal" — more at capital entry 1
Note: Compare cattle, and see also note at the etymology of capital entry 2.
First Known Use
1549, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Time Traveler
The first known use of chattel was in 1549 Phrases Containing chattel
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