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Default Re: chattel an slave

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Originally Posted by ieasy View Post
Hi,

I was very surprised to read in a dictionary that chattel can be synonym of slave. Is that correct?
The word chattel is etymologically related to cattle.
There are many examples in history of slaves being thought of as cattle and treated no better.
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