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James Bronterre O'Brien. The rise, progress, and phases of human slavery
The rise, progress, and phases of human slavery
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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
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James Bronterre O'Brien
How it came into the world and how it shall be made to go out
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Antiquity of Slavery—Anterior to Legal Institution—Examples cited from Ancient History—Arose from Patriarchal Government—Despotic Power of Head of Family—Marriage Custom of Purchase—Aristocratic Governments favourable to Development—Decadence under Republics.
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 of direct slavery; and how Christianity was mainly instrumental in bringing about the manumission of slaves in the Roman empire, and thence throughout western Europe. The Proletarians, past and present, are but the descendants and successors of the manumitted slaves, and of decayed families of the ancient master-class; and, as observed in our last chapter, the modern classification of them by writers of the Guizot school is—Workpeople, Robbers, Beggars, and Prostitutes.
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