human chattel

短语

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Human beings considered property, that is, slaves.

    不可数

    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?