Chattel slavery is a type of slavery defined as the absolute legal ownership of a person or persons, including the legal right to buy and sell them.

Chattel slavery of English Christians was discontinued after 1066, when William of Normandy conquered England.

Chattel property is converted into a fixture by the process of attachment.

Chattel employment is currently regarded as highly inappropriate in Islam.

* Hannah Landecker, 1999, " Between Beneficence and Chattel: The Human Biological in Law and Science ," Science in Context, 203 – 225.

" Hard Labor: Women, Childbirth, and Resistance in British Caribbean Slave Societies ", in David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clarke Hine, eds., More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas ( Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996 ), pp. 193 – 217.

The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.

The nineteenth-century immigration, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic, was not so much concerned, for very few if any among them held slaves: they were mostly in the Northern states where slavery had disappeared or was on the way out, or were too poverty-stricken to own slaves.

He declared that the deaths of so many brave soldiers would not be in vain, that slavery would end as a result of the losses, and the future of democracy would be assured, that " government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

According to Wirt, Henry ended his speech with words that have since become immortalized: " Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?

In 1891 Pope Leo XIII promulgated Rerum Novarum, in which he addressed the " misery and wretchedness pressing so unjustly on the majority of the working class " and spoke of how " a small number of very rich men " had been able to " lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself .".

When they could not do so after several days, he let them choose between death, slavery, or being set adrift in a rudderless boat.

Cuba was close to the United States and had slavery, so the idea appealed to Southerners but was unwelcome in the North.

It became problematic when popular sovereignty was written into the proposal so that the voters of the moment would decide whether slavery would be allowed.

Douglas hoped popular sovereignty would enable democracy to triumph, so he would not have to take a side on the issue of slavery.

Although New Mexico Territory officially allowed slavery, geography and economics made the institution so impractical that there were few slaves within its boundaries.

Southern slave-owners wanted the US to establish slavery laws in Louisiana, so they could be supported in taking their slaves to the new territory to undertake new agricultural developments, as well as to reduce the threat of future slave revolts.

When it came to the issue of slavery in DC and slavery in the United States, he was against its abolition, and said so in his Inaugural Address in 1837: " I believed it a solemn duty fully to make known my sentiments in regard to it < nowiki > ,</ nowiki > and now, when every motive for misrepresentation has passed away, I trust that they will be candidly weighed and understood.

Rodney says that the Portuguese reports generally were detailed and thorough, especially concerning trade, and that it is unlikely, if slavery had been an important local institution, that the reports would have been so silent about it.

This proposed amendment would have forbidden the adoption of any constitutional amendment that would have abolished or restricted slavery, or permitted the Congress to do so.

The medieval Church took the position that Christians should not own fellow Christians as slaves, so chattel slavery diminished as a practice throughout northern Europe.

It became problematic when popular sovereignty was written into the proposal so that the voters of the moment would decide whether slavery would be allowed.

Douglas hoped popular sovereignty would enable democracy to triumph, so he would not have to take a side on the issue of slavery.

One commentator has gone so far as to say: " One of the most important aspects of the History of the British Virgin Islands is slavery.

# We eat only matzah because our ancestors could not wait for their breads to rise when they were fleeing slavery in Egypt, and so they were flat when they came out of the oven.

Johnson quickly declared that the war goals of national unity and the ending of slavery had been achieved, so that reconstruction was completed.

The House passed the Pinckney Resolutions on May 26, 1836, the third of which was known from the beginning as the " gag rule " and passed with a vote of 117 to 68 ( The first stated that Congress had no constitutional authority to interfere with slavery in the states and the second that it " ought not " do so in the District of Columbia.

Total is currently the subject of a lawsuit in French and Belgian courts for the condoning and use of Burman civilian slavery to construct the named pipeline.

These reforms included guarantees to ensure the Ottoman subjects perfect security for their lives, honour, and property ; the introduction of the first Ottoman paper banknotes ( 1840 ) and opening of the first post offices ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the finance system according to the French model ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the Civil and Criminal Code according to the French model ( 1840 ); the establishment of the Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye ( 1841 ) which was the prototype of the First Ottoman Parliament ( 1876 ); the reorganization of the army and a regular method of recruiting, levying the army, and fixing the duration of military service ( 1843 – 44 ); the adoption of an Ottoman national anthem and Ottoman national flag ( 1844 ); the first nationwide Ottoman census in 1844 ( only male citizens were counted ); the first national identity cards ( officially named the Mecidiye identity papers, or informally kafa kağıdı ( head paper ) documents, 1844 ); the institution of a Council of Public Instruction ( 1845 ) and the Ministry of Education ( Mekatib-i Umumiye Nezareti, 1847, which later became the Maarif Nezareti, 1857 ); the abolition of slavery and slave trade ( 1847 ); the establishment of the first modern universities ( darülfünun, 1848 ), academies ( 1848 ) and teacher schools ( darülmuallimin, 1848 ); establishment of the Ministry of Healthcare ( Tıbbiye Nezareti, 1850 ); the Commerce and Trade Code ( 1850 ); establishment of the Academy of Sciences ( Encümen-i Daniş, 1851 ); establishment of the Şirket-i Hayriye which operated the first steam-powered commuter ferries ( 1851 ); the first European style courts ( Meclis-i Ahkam-ı Adliye, 1853 ) and supreme judiciary council ( Meclis-i Ali-yi Tanzimat, 1853 ); establishment of the modern Municipality of Istanbul ( Şehremaneti, 1854 ) and the City Planning Council ( İntizam-ı Şehir Komisyonu, 1855 ); the abolition of the capitation ( Jizya ) tax on non-Muslims, with a regular method of establishing and collecting taxes ( 1856 ); non-Muslims were allowed to become soldiers ( 1856 ); various provisions for the better administration of the public service and advancement of commerce ; the establishment of the first telegraph networks ( 1847 – 1855 ) and railroads ( 1856 ); the replacement of guilds with factories ; the establishment of the Ottoman Central Bank ( originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866 ); the Land Code ( Arazi Kanunnamesi, 1857 ); permission for private sector publishers and printing firms with the Serbesti-i Kürşad Nizamnamesi ( 1857 ); establishment of the School of Economical and Political Sciences ( Mekteb-i Mülkiye, 1859 ); the Press and Journalism Regulation Code ( Matbuat Nizamnamesi, 1864 ); among others.

A black man named Anthony Johnson of Virginia first introduced permanent black slavery in the 1650s by becoming the first holder in America of permanent black slaves.

As she led more individuals out of slavery, she was named " Moses " by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, an allusion to the prophet in the Book of Exodus who led the Hebrews to freedom from Egypt.

It is named after Congressman James Robert Mann, and in its original form prohibited white slavery and the interstate transport of females for " immoral purposes ".

Once William escaped from slavery and joined the Massachusetts Regiment, he met a white man named William Carney.

The Forbush Collection, named for Dr. Bliss Forbush, is composed of materials associated with the Quakers and slavery.

The community was named for the English statesman William Wilberforce, who worked for abolition of slavery and achieved the end of the slave trade in the United Kingdom and its empire.

The book was a classic tale of adventure, where a young American sea captain named James Riley, shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in 1815, was captured by a band of nomadic Arabs, and sold into slavery.

Likewise, Joseph named his firstborn son Manasseh ( Hebrew: " causing to forget ") as a gesture of forgiveness to his brothers for selling him into slavery.

The operation was named after the Biblical figure Nachshon Ben Aminadav, who was the first to wade into the Red Sea when the Hebrews escaped from slavery in Egypt.

The other survivor of the Whydah, a Miskito Indian named John Julian, was not tried but rather is believed to have been sold into slavery after his capture.

The work weaves together themes of feminism, slavery, conquest and botany, while following the story of a young girl named Indigo from the fictional " Sand Lizard People " in the Arizona Territory and her European travels as a summer companion to an affluent White woman named Hattie.

The Lincoln – Douglas Debate format is named for the 1858 Lincoln – Douglas Debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, because their debates focused on slavery and the morals, values, and logic behind it.

Today it houses over 250, 000 books and an ethnographic museum, and stands as a tribute to the man it is named after who led the movement to abolish slavery in Martinique.

We-myself, brother and two men named Barricklow-purchased and erected a forty horsepower steam sawmill, and sawed all the lumber for the university and the other buildings at Baldwin ... I was ground agent of the work and was five years engaged in sawing, building and doctoring the sick through small-pox, cholera and other diseases, and representing the people of Douglas County in the Kansas Legislature, during which time we washed and ironed the last wrinkle of human slavery out of the State ... I was called a good doctor, a faithful legislator, a sober, sound and loyal man, abounding with truth and justice and a heartful of love to all.

The college was founded in 1848 by a group of abolitionists who had left Kentucky because of their opposition to slavery and was originally named the Walnut Grove Academy.

Meanwhile, Nathan rescues a woman named Clarissa from a life of slavery in the Imperial Order.

They named it the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, based on the ambitious objective of achieving emancipation and an end to slavery worldwide.

He purchased a plantation in Montserrat to demonstrate that slavery was unnecessary, and named it Olveston, now a village on the island.

Preston inspired the named of the famous African Nova Scotian leader and clergyman Richard Preston who after escaping slavery took the name of the community where he was reunited with his mother.

The teacher of the two boys was an elderly Calabrian monk, also named Cosmas ( known as " Cosmas the Monk " to distinguish him ), who had been freed from slavery to the Saracens by St. John's father.