Examples of chattel in the following topics:
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- Although African chattel slavery was a more expensive investment that white indentured servitude, it guaranteed a lifetime service of free labor.
- A great deal of support for the system of chattel slavery came from the fear of wealthy whites of rebellions from the labor force.
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- Race was a critical
element of chattel slavery.
- Slave women were at high risk for rape and sexual abuse, a
practice partially rooted in the patriarchal Southern culture of the era that
perceived all women, black or white, as property or chattel.
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- Chattel slavery in the United States, or the outright ownership of a human being and of his/her descendants, was a form of forced labor which existed as a legal institution from the early colonial period .
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- The sexual
abuse of slaves was partially rooted in a patriarchal Southern culture which perceived
all women, whether black or white, as property or chattel.
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- Furthermore, the Court ruled that
slaves, as chattel or private property, could not be taken away from their
owners without due process.
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- The language of liberty, significantly, did not apply to slaves, who were deemed as chattel property.
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- From this time onward, Jefferson took on the duties of owning and supervising his large chattel estate.
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- As further protection for slavery, the delegates approved Section 2 of Article IV, which prohibited citizens from providing assistance to escaping slaves and required the return of chattel property to owners.
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- As further protection for slavery, the constitutional delegates approved a clause which prohibited citizens from providing assistance to escaped slaves and required the return of chattel property to owners.
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- As further protection for slavery, Section 2 of Article IV prohibited citizens from providing assistance to escaping slaves and required the return of chattel property to owners.