Chattel may refer to: . Chattel, an alternative name for tangible personal property; A chattel house, a type of West Indian dwelling; A chattel mortgage, a security interest over tangible personal property; Chattel slavery, the most extreme form of slavery, in which the enslaved were treated as property; The Chattel, a 1916 silent film

There were three types of enslavement in Ancient Egypt: chattel slavery, bonded labor, and forced labor. But even these seemingly well-differentiated types of slavery are susceptible to individual interpretation. Egypt's labor culture encompassed many people of various social ranks. The word translated as "slave" from the Egyptian language does ...

The anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was published and, by year's end, 300,000 copies were sold in the United States. "Tom shows," dramatizations based on the plot of the novel, were widely performed by traveling companies into the 20th century, spreading common stereotypes of African Americans.