Word: chattel
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...wonder, then, that there is such anger towards those who try to get labor on the cheap. This is the basis of Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger's recent attack on New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's workfare program. Messinger called Giuliani's program "chattel ownership and indentured servitude." Her attack turns on this second component of labor's value; she laments in the Forward that not enough of the participants received real jobs...
...council's priorities must now and always be to make the College a bastion of comfortable learning for undergraduates. Students are not chattel. The administration cannot trough-feed us the Core or placate us with the Loker Commons. We believe in the strength and unity and goodness that an undergraduate community dedicated to a rigorous education and a moral responsibility can achieve. We believe in the power of democracy not simply as a balance of group interests but as a mechanism of fostering community. We believe that the council's purpose should be to uphold these beliefs, to fight...
First, some clarification is in order. Certain of my ancestors were in chattel slavery, and thus were victims of that southern culture which took its institutional form in the Confederacy. My ancestors were freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation and the efforts of the Union Army, and we have never forgotten that. My grandmother was born in 1863, the year of the Emancipation, in Richmond, Virginia: when she came north to join her northern relative who had long been free she always referred to the Civil War as the "War of the Rebellion;" and she bore no sentimental...
GYPSIES HAVE TRADITIONALLY been the untouchables of Europe, lowest of the low. In medieval Romania, a Gypsy could be bought and sold as chattel, often for the price of a pig. In 18th century Prussia, Gypsies over 18 could be hanged without trial solely on the ground that their itinerant life-style was illegal. The Nazis targeted Gypsies for elimination as congenitally criminal, and more than 500,000 died in Hitler's death camps...
...think Malone tried to deny the extent of discrimination in America today. I think you can't deny the past. Brown was very eloquent in articulating why the Black experience in America is unique due to the history of chattel slavery, lynching, and the system of Jim Crow segregation," said Seth D. Hanlon...