Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To consider or class as a chattel or chattels; reduce to the rank of a chattel.
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Examples
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American slavery, for its own aggrandizement, attempted to chattelize the whole of one of the three great branches of the human race.
Sketch of the Early History of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church with Jubilee Souvenir and an Appendix James Walker 1914
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Its work is to chattelize man; to hold property in human beings.
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time Various 1905
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