Word: chattel
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...House of Burgesses, the elective house of Virginia's colonial legislature and the political academy of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. In their rough-and-ready way, the Jamestown settlers had planted the seeds of a dynamic system, democratic capitalism, along with an institution that would pervert it, chattel slavery, and a force that would supply the cure, the goal of liberty...
Slaves are used as housemaids, prostitutes, construction workers, sweatshop workers, and agricultural laborers. There are several methods by which people are enslaved, including chattel slavery, in which a person is captured, born, or sold into permanent servitude; debt bondage, in which a person pledges him or herself against a loan of money but the length and type of labor is not defined; and contract slavery, in which a potential employee is promised a job, often in another country, and once they arrive, find that their passport and documents are confiscated, and that the terms of employment are drastically different. They...
...slang form of “chitterling,” which is itself a euphemism for pork entrails. Chitlin’s have been a staple of black cooking since the slave era: plantation masters considered the organ meats refuse and, thus, suitable fare for human chattel. This historical promotion of junk meat into ethnic cuisine is metaphoric of Perry’s transformation of marginal black theater into a lucrative cultural force...
...wrote about freedom in such transcendent terms have not seen echoes of his struggle in the Haitians' urgent desire for self-rule? Possibly because as a slave owner and the leader of slaveholders, he could never reconcile dealing with one group of Africans as leaders and another as chattel. So Haiti's independence remained unrecognized by Jefferson, who urged Congress to suspend commerce with the nascent republic, declaring its leaders "cannibals...
...That's about all the emancipation the women are permitted. To Seierstad, the middle-aged Khan has been conditioned to think of them as chattel, taking a second spouse, a comely adolescent, when he tires of his aging wife. He forces his educated youngest sister to sacrifice her dreams of becoming an English teacher for an arranged marriage with her unemployed cousin, a man who has never opened a book. "In his heart he wanted Afghanistan to be a modern country," writes Seierstad, "but when it came to ruling his family, Sultan had only one model: his father...