Word: chattel
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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...
Worldly Goods. In Orangeburg, S.C., Negro Willie Davis, filing a chattel mortgage, listed among his belongings "one wooden leg, dark brown, used...
...cries out against any civic philosophy which would degrade man to the position of a soulless pawn in a sordid game of power and prestige, or would seek to banish him from membership in the human family; ... he opposes any social philosophy which would regard man as a mere chattel in commercial competition for profit, or would set him at the throat of his fellows in a blind, brutish class struggle for existence...
...lawyer can do better for them in the courts. "The future is often cloudy and even ominous," complained chocolate-skinned Austin Thomas Walden of Atlanta to the convention. "The Negro, not yet wholly freed from the tentacles of the subservient and defeatist hereditary psychology created by 250 years of chattel slavery and surrounded by a dominant race which magnified and deified everything white, while minimizing, depreciating, if not anathematizing, everything black, which hypothesis was for a long time openly and brazenly supported by the law, and always supported by unbending and inflexible custom and tradition, . . . unconsciously felt that...