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Meaning of human chattel | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Human beings considered property, that is, slaves.

Examples

“Where is the man of intelligence who does not instantly see that this provision of human law […] makes the relation, between father and mother, that of mere agents for increasing the gains of him who claims a right of property in the human chattel, whose offspring, by law, are his?”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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See also

human cheese human chorionic gonadotropin human chorionic somatomammotropin human composting human condition human development

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