Word: chattel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threatened by a great tyranny, a tyranny that is brutal in its primitiveness. It is a tyranny that has brought thousands-millions of people-into slave camps and is attempting to make all human kind its chattel...
Aren't Women Persons? They argued that the whole body of English common law tended to relegate women to the class of chattel. As the redoubtable Mrs. Emma Guffey Miller, sister of ex-Senator Joe Guffey, had pointed out during earlier Senate committee hearings: "We women want to be persons now because we are still not persons in the Constitution...