chattelism

Thus Christ and his apostles, so far from upholding chattelism in their teachings, denounced the ownership of man by any but God, and inculcated its opposite -- love, liberty, equality, and fraternity -- by precept and example.

Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? Isaac Allen

Did the second fundamental condition of chattelism mentioned above exist?

Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? Isaac Allen

In further proof of this, and in direct opposition to chattelism, is the fact, that the laws regulating the relation of master and servant are each and all enacted for the benefit and protection of the servant, and not one for that of the master.

Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? Isaac Allen

Here the term "buy" can only be applied to the _service_, sold by the servant for six years, (or perhaps to the sabbatic seventh year, as daily or weekly service ended with the Sabbath,) for it is applied to a state which no ingenuity whatever can construe as chattelism.

Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? Isaac Allen

These positions, we admit, have some plausibility, and have doubtless had great weight in producing the opinion that chattelism is sanctioned by the Bible.

Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? Isaac Allen

If this be not express prohibition of chattelism, and command to slaves to free themselves from it, then the language is totally contradictory and unintelligible.

Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? Isaac Allen

It is true, however, that a resulting lowering of vitality has followed the admixture of "_kindred blood_," which was almost unavoidable during the days of slavery as the result of certain well-known procreative practices that obtained on the part of the master, and on account of the itineracy of the Negro incident to his chattelism.

Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp

Southern cotton-fields will whiten with heavier crops than human chattelism ever produced, and the mountains of both latitudes, now hardly notched with civilization, will roll down the wool of sheep in clouds.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

While she held a seventh portion of her vast population in a state of chattelism, it was in vain that she boasted of her democratic principles and her free institutions; ostentatiously holding her Declaration of

The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. William Still

But in the case of Jacob's four sons the conclusion is self-evident -- children of "servants" or "handmaids," yet recognized as free like the other sons, sharing the property of the father equally with them; -- the conditions of a state of chattelism did not exist.

Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? Isaac Allen