Wiktionary
n. Human beings considered property, that is, slaves.
Usage examples of "human chattel".
Ingolfssons did not sell their human chattel except for gross and deliberate fault, which meant you had to be careful.
Hashish, heroin, even human chattel could be had at the right address.
Therefore just about anything that was flown over from the European Fatherland to occupied America passed through Fuhrerstadt at some point, with much of the heavy lifting being done by once proud Americans who were now little more than human chattel.
To the observer who could see only the interior of this space and not the ones housing guns, explosives and human chattel, there was nothing sinister or malign here.
She claimed her son, a machinist at the Packard plant in Clinton, had tracked down two old bills of sale, one of a man he believed to be his great-grandfather, to a plantation south of Natchez, the other from a cabinet maker who'd built coffins of cheap pine to house the mortal remains of human chattel for local slave owners.