The rise, progress, and phases of human slavery How it came into the world and how it shall be made to go out

Importance of Social Reform--Universality of covert or open Slavery--Partial Prevalence of Working Class--Origin in Proletarianism--Advent of Christianity--its Effects on Slaver...

Permanence of Slavery under all Revolutions--Ignorance of principle of Human Equality--Theory and Personal Experience of Plato--Contentment of Slaves with their Condition--Occas...

System acquiesced in by Slave-Class--Insurrections and Rebellions from other causes than Hatred of Slavery--Rising under Spartacus--conditions wanting for Success--Contrast of M...

Opposition from corrupt Slave-Caste--Detestation of Christian Doctrines by Slave-owners--Incomprehensibility of the new Doctrine of Equality--Absence of a destitute Free People...

Seven Years’ Persecution of Equalitarian Innovators--Seventh Great Persecution--Christians charged with Sorcery in Eighth Persecution--Tortures of Ninth and Tenth Persecutions--...

Cost of making the New Ideas triumphant--Change in Character in the hands of Kings, Courtiers, and Profitmongers--Emancipations become a matter of Policy and Profit--Repudiation...

Persistence of Chattel-Slavery in Eastern Countries--Assumption of form of Wages-Slavery under Modern Civilization--Creation of Millionaire Capitalists by present System--Result...

Answer to question, “How is Human Slavery to go out?”--Insufficiency of mere Political Freedom--Accessibility of Public Lands in new Countries their chief Advantage--Inadequacy...

Inability of a People ignorant of Social Rights to choose Representatives--Duties of a wise Democracy--Omnipotency of a Knowledge of Social Rights--Facility of Application of So...

Necessity of Agrarian Reform--Crown Lands, Church Lands, and Corporation Lands to be immediately resumed, and their Rent applied to the relief of Taxation--The Rich have no righ...

Necessity for Adjustment of Public and Private Debts--Their overwhelming Burden must result in Civil War--Third Resolution the only Remedy--Opinion of Cobbett--Enormous Increase...

Unjust Laws to enable the Few to deprive the Working Class of their Earnings--Private Property in Land the Basis of Wages-Slavery--Raw Materials of Wealth belong to all--Land an...

Inadequacy and Absurdity of present Medium of Exchange--Necessity of new National Currency for the Home Trade--Example from Iron Currency of Sparta--Labour Notes of Guernsey--Go...

False principle of Law-made Property--Absurdity of Funding System and Borrowing from Investors--Evil of Public Works in hands of Profitmongers and Speculators--Rapacity of Preda...

At this critical period of the world’s history, when either the whole of society must undergo a peaceful Social Reformation that shall strike at the root of abuses, or else be i...

In the preceding chapter we have shown how the modern working classes sprang from the ancient Proletarians; how the Proletarians arose out of the downfall of the ancient system...

We stated, in our last chapter, that human slavery, according to the concurrent testimony of history and philosophy, originated in the unbounded power which fathers or heads of...

Having shown how human slavery originated in parental despotism, let us now inquire how positive laws came to consolidate and regulate it, and public opinion to consecrate and p...

Permanence of Slavery under all Revolutions--Ignorance of Principle of Human Equality--Theory and Personal Experience of Plato--Contentment of Slaves with their Condition--Occas...

System acquiesced in by Slave-Class--Insurrections and Rebellions from other Causes than Hatred of Slavery--Rising under Spartacus--Conditions wanting for Success--Contrast of M...

Having seen how firmly rooted was the institution of direct human slavery in the public opinion of the ancient world, let us now inquire what was the potent force or combination...

Look on the life of a modern negro-slave in America, and compare it with the life of a modern Irish or Scotch peasant, or even that of an English hand-loom weaver in the North o...

Before proceeding to show how Christianity, on the one hand, and worldly selfishness on the other, concurred in superimposing the evil of proletarianism upon that of chattel-sla...

Opposition from corrupt Slave-Caste--Detestation of Christian Doctrines by Slave-owners--Incomprehensibility of new Doctrine of Equality--Absence of a destitute Free People a Dr...

We have seen, in the preceding chapter, why Christianity must, upon its first introduction, have been universally and virulently opposed by the established powers of the world;...

Seven Years’ Persecution of Equalitarian Innovators--Seventh Great Persecution--Christians charged with Sorcery in Eighth Persecution--Tortures of Ninth and Tenth Persecutions--...

Cost of making the New Ideas triumphant--Change in Character in the hands of Kings, Courtiers, and Profitmongers--Emancipations become a matter of Policy and Profit--Repudiation...

Our last chapter concluded with an instructive passage, translated from the work of M. Granier de Cassagnac, showing how the pure spirit of primitive Christianity had operated t...

Persistence of Chattel-Slavery in Eastern Countries--Assumption of Form of Wages-Slavery under Modern Civilization--Creation of Millionaire Capitalists by Present System--Result...

Answer to question, “How is Human Slavery to go out?”--Insufficiency of mere Political Freedom--Accessibility of Public Lands in new Countries their chief Advantage--Inadequacy...

Inability of a People ignorant of Social Rights to choose Representatives--Duties of a wise Democracy--Omnipotency of a Knowledge of Social Rights--Facility of Application of So...

Necessity of Agrarian Reform--Crown Lands, Church Lands, and Corporation Lands to be immediately resumed, and their Rent applied to the relief of Taxation--The Rich have no righ...

Necessity for Adjustment of Public and Private Debts--Their overwhelming Burden must result in Civil War--Third Resolution the only Remedy--Opinion of Cobbett--Enormous Increase...

Unjust Laws to enable the Few to deprive the Working Class of their Earnings--Private Property in Land the Basis of Wages-Slavery--Raw Materials of Wealth belong to all--Land an...

Inadequacy and Absurdity of present Medium of Exchange--Necessity for new National Currency for Home Trade--Example from Iron Currency of Sparta--Labour Notes of Guernsey--Gold...

False Principle of Law-made Property--Absurdity of Funding System and Borrowing from Investors--Evil of Public Works in hands of Profitmongers and Speculators--Rapacity of Preda...