Word: chattel
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...auction was grimly reminiscent of slave sales in the antebellum South, conducted for much the same reason: "pleasure" and profit. Today more and more concerned people hope that the slavery of animals eventually will be viewed with the same disgust, and condemned with the same moral righteousness, as human chattel...
Wallace posits that what allowed Blacks to become slaves in American while others did not is sexism. "The only way to make us slaves (chattel slaves, not the indentured servants the first White slaves in America were) was to demean us sexually," she says. "The only way they could justify selling Blacks was to say we were sexually unfit...
...mean a sheriff's sale?" I knew how much Featherless prized his chattel, especially his condo at Yosemite Apts. and his Tempura sports car, with a five-speed balance of payments...
...husband is impotent. Women must dress modestly, and their inheritance is limited to a fraction of that of men. In defense of these sexist inequities, scholars of the Shari'a note that Islamic law was advanced for its time. Before Muhammad, women in Arabia were mere chattel. The Koran emphatically asserts a husband's duty to support his wife (or wives), who are allowed to keep their dowries and to own property-rights that did not emerge until much later in Western countries...
...principles of Islam are very advanced," says Mrs. Shambayati. In the 7th century, Islamic practice established that women should not be chattel and gave them the rights to reject marriage proposals and to own property-radical ideas at the time. Yet, says Mrs. Shambayati, "although Islam gave women life 1,400 years ago,the right only to breath is not enough today...