In entering upon the duties of a slaveholder, she did not seem to perceive that I sustained to her the relation of a mere chattel, and that for her to treat me as a human being was not only wrong, but dangerously so.

—Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
Frederick Douglass

Read the passage from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and use context clues to figure out the meaning of the word chattel. Use the drop-down menus to answer these questions.

Chattel means .

Which clues in the text helped you determine the meaning of the word chattel?

What kind of context clue is this?

Central ideas are the most ideas in a text.

Choose the correct type of literary text for the statement. if both types apply, be sure to choose the answer that includes both types. use(s) imagery? 1: poetry 2: poetry and prose 3: prose

The author most likely included these details in order to read the excerpt from "justin lebo." it was a bmx bike with a twenty-inch trame. its original color was buried beneath five or six coats of gunky paint. now it showed up as sort of a rusted red. everything the grips, the pedals, the brakes, the seat, the spokes-were bent or broken, twisted and rusted, highlight the amount of money justin had to spend to restore the bicycle llustrate why justin wanted to give the bicycle away to someone else. emphasize how hard justin had to work to restore the bicycle. show why justin may have made a mistake in buying this bicycle