This fully explains what is the nature of a slave, and what are his capacities; for that being who by nature is nothing of himself, but totally another's, and is a man, is a slave by nature; and that man who is the property of another, is his mere chattel , though he continues a man; but a chattel is an instrument for use, separate from the body.

She was the chattel of the Minota's splendid skipper.

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.

Primitive communism, chattel slavery, serf slavery, and wage slavery were necessary stepping-stones in the evolution of society.

Didn't I tell you that no chattel of the Church, no bond-slave of pope or bishop can enter my Man-Factory?

By giving a chattel mortgage on their growing wheat, they borrowed enough, at twenty per cent, to buy seed corn and a plow.

You are my property, MY chattel ; you promised obedience to me; I bought you, and you do my bidding!"

They have purchased your slave judges, they have debauched your slave legislatures, and they have forced to worse horrors than chattel slavery your slave boys and girls.

She was merely his chattel now, his convenience, his dog, his cringing and helpless slave, the humble and unresisting victim of his capricious temper and vicious nature.

In entering upon the duties of a slaveholder, she did not seem to perceive that I sus- tained to her the relation of a mere chattel , and that for her to treat me as a human being was not only wrong, but dangerously so.

Although he belonged to Dag Daughtry just as much as if the steward possessed a chattel bill of sale of him, his owner did not know that his anaesthetic twist of ravaged nerves tokened the dread disease.