Sentences with phrase «chattel slaves of»

7) «I first want to say that these foreigners were no where near those of the chattel slaves of the antebellum South.»

I first want to say that these foreigners were no where near those of the chattel slaves of the antebellum South.

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This social transformation represents a remarkable, unparalleled experience; in barely the span of a generation, and with comparatively little violence, a despised and largely disenfranchised minority descendant from chattel slaves used the courts, the legislature, the press, and the rights of petition and assembly of the republic to force a redefinition of their citizenship.

Like Douglass, during his career as a slave, Brown was the chattel property of several families, and he also recorded that slavery had a corrosive influence upon the character and well - being of the slaveholders and their families.

In his life as a slave who was passed from one owner to another in the manner of chattel property.

This bond service or indentured servanthood is in stark contrast with chattel slavery of the New World (African Slave Trade).

But when we disparage 12 Years a Slave for trying to capture the essence of pain in chattel slavery, we are disavowing people whose pain can never totally be represented.

An «indentured servant» or «volunteer» is bound to a term of service whereas a chattel slave became the owner's «possession... for ever.»

Children of both types of slaves were property of the master and were passed onto the masters heirs as chattel.

Since the dawn of time slave owners have always considered their slaves to be property — chattels to be used and abused.

I was a college student the first time I remember hearing about Juneteenth, the annual holiday established to commemorate and celebrate the emancipation of the last African chattel slaves in the United States in the state of Texas.