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Description:
In line 21, "a human chattel" refers to
(A)a slave
(B)old men
(C)angry people
(D)violence
Transcript
- 00:00
Yeah Okay see Reading shmoop er analyzer people We're going
- 00:06
to go back through another passage here and figure out
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what it means So first question we're gonna look at
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the questions first Now go back to reading So in
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line twenty one a human chattel refers to what let's
Full Transcript
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skin this thing quickly and we'll kind of stop twenty
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one Alright So old natural Very real impressive The idea
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it was having happy man You know childs i were
- 00:26
troubling him A haggard tell him walk alone and find
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an army of invisible foes May no more of our
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president and ducks and geese Any man in the green
- 00:34
little black urchins around i'm going to move about slavery
- 00:36
was never encourage that kind of communication with the slaves
- 00:40
by which they might learn to measure the depths of
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his knowledge Ignorance is a high virtue in a human
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chattel and so on Okay Ignorance Meaning it's virtuous for
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a slave to be ignorant And it makes a slave
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more valuable right Although it's not often used in everyday
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speech the word chattel means personal property like a legal
- 01:00
term you know property like a home or a tennis
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racket Or a ping pong paddle Well despite being human
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slaves were considered personal property not human beings There's nothing
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pretty about this comparison but the narrator uses it to
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emphasize the inhumane view that slaveholders had of their slaves
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So human chattel refers to a slave Got it alright
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loser bowl old man angry people violence Yeah we know
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that the master himself was old but the narrators speaking
- 01:27
about his own experiences a child slave it's an old
- 01:30
man While slaves had every reason in the world to
- 01:32
be angry the narrator describes what it was like being
- 01:35
around the master when he was acting moody or violent
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So that's it The answer is a chattel as a 00:01:41.495 --> [endTime] slave Unfortunately
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