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In the truly old days, women became chattel when nomadic societies ceased to be mobile and agrarian. Before yielding to land ownership, life meant everyone in the family and community had respectable ...

“The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” — one of the foremost examples of the literary genre — offered a firsthand ...

Saturday Night Is SNL’s Propaganda Origin Story The Three Holiday Ghosts of Taking Responsibility Its third verse uses the word ‘slave,’ but it may not have referred to chattel slavery in ...

The lenders were told if anything went wrong, they could always claim the motorhome, with their right to it listed in a legal document called a chattel mortgage, which was filed at Companies House.

The Menlo Park Historical Association has sponsored an application to add the site of the former Sunset Magazine headquarters ...

You treat your child as a chattel. A child is not a chattel…. Accept the marriage of your child,” a Bench led by Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna told the woman’s parents.