The rise, progress, and phases of human slavery / How it came into the world and how it shall be made to go out
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A man who lived for truth, and truth alone—
Brave as the bravest—generous as brave;
A man whose heart was rent by every moan
That burst from every trodden, tortured slave;
A man prepared to fight, prepared to die,
To lighten, banish, human misery.
The mighty scorned him, vilified, oppressed;
The bitter cup of poverty and pain
Forced him to drink. He was misfortune’s guest
Through weary, weary years; his anguish’d brain
James Bronterre O'Brien
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TO THE PEOPLE!
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. PROLETARIANISM SPRUNG FROM CHATTEL SLAVERY.
CHAPTER II. ORIGIN OF SLAVERY IN PATERNAL AUTHORITY.
CHAPTER III. CAUSES OF PARENTAL DESPOTISM.
CHAPTER IV. INCREASE AND CONSOLIDATION OF SLAVERY.
CHAPTER V. OPINION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD ON SLAVERY.
CHAPTER VI. UNIVERSALITY OF PUBLIC OPINION AS TO MASTER AND SLAVES.
CHAPTER VII. COMPARISON OF ANCIENT WITH MODERN SLAVERY.
CHAPTER VIII. EXPLOITATION-VALUE OF SLAVE AND FREE LABOUR.
CHAPTER IX. HISTORY OF EARLY SOCIAL REFORMERS.
CHAPTER X. PROGRESS OF EARLY CHRISTIAN PROPAGANDA.
CHAPTER XI. THE FOUR GREAT PERSECUTIONS.
CHAPTER XII. PROGRESS OF PROPAGANDA TO THE TENTH PERSECUTION.
CHAPTER XIII. DEBASEMENT OF THE NEW POWER WHEN SEIZED BY RULERS.
CHAPTER XIV. SERVICE OF CHRISTIANITY IN BREAKING CASTE-BONDS.
CHAPTER XV. FORM OF SLAVERY UNDER MODERN CIVILIZATION.
CHAPTER XVI. REFORMS AS MUCH NEEDED IN AMERICA AND IN COLONIES AS IN EUROPE.
CHAPTER XVII. RELIEF TO UNEMPLOYED OR DESTITUTE A RIGHT, NOT A CHARITY.
CHAPTER XVIII. GRADUAL RESUMPTION OF PUBLIC LANDS BY THE STATE.
CHAPTER XIX. NATIONAL DEBT A MORTGAGE ON REALISED PROPERTY.
CHAPTER XX. NATIONAL LANDS AND CREDIT FOR THE USE OF THE PEOPLE.
CHAPTER XXI. NATIONAL SYSTEM OF CURRENCY AND EXCHANGE REQUIRED.
CHAPTER XXII. EVILS OF MONOPOLIES AND EXPLOITATIONS OF INDUSTRIES.
