In case both parties agree to let the alienator continuously possess the chattel when the real right of a chattel is alienated, the real right shall go into effect upon the effectiveness of the agreement.
So the federal government, having destroyed chattel slavery, sought by legal decree to sweep away all its signs and badges, civil, social, and political.
These houses are usually found within slave yards, being used as rooms for the examination of human chattels by purchasers before concluding a bargain.
But Atlantic slavery was different and more horrifying, because it was chattel slavery, a term historians use to indicate that the slaves were move-able property.
As a result, it provides viewers with an unpleasant but unquestionably necessary intuitive documentation of the realities of human life under conditions unworthy of chattel.
Now I mention this story to illustrate some issues of the conflation of class, race, ethnicity, and social status I often see on videos I post about the history of chattel slavery.
In a lot of ways, it's ground zero for chattel slavery in the country: 40% to 48% of the enslaved who came into this country came in through Charleston.