Slavery


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1 The nature of enslavement, the relation of master and slave.
2 The theory of natural slavery and the natural slave.
3 Characteristics of the natural slave, individual and racial differences in relation to slavery.
4 The conception of the natural slave as the property or instrument of his master.
5 Slavery in relation to natural or to divine law.
6 Criticisms of the doctrine of natural slavery.
7 Slavery as a social institution, the conventionality of slavery.
8 The acquisition of slaves, conquest, purchase, indenture, forfeiture.
9 Laws regulating slavery, the rights and duties of master and slave.
10 The emancipation or manumission of slaves, the rebellion of slaves.
11 Criticisms of the institution of slavery, the injustice of slavery, its transgression of inalienable human rights.
12 The forms of economic slavery.
13 Chattel slavery, slaves of the household and slaves of the state.
14 Serfdom or peonage.
15 Wage slavery, the exploitation of the laborer.
16 The political aspect of economic slavery.
17 The disfranchisement of chattel slaves and serfs, their exclusion from the body politic or political community.
18 The political deprivations of the laboring classes or wage slaves, the struggle for enfranchisement, the issue between oligarchy and democracy with respect to suffrage.
19 Political enslavement or subjection.
20 Slavery as the condition of men living under tyrannical government.
21 Subjection as the condition of men living under benevolent despotism or paternalistic government.
22 The transition from subjection to citizenship, the conditions fitting men for self-government.
23 The imperialistic subjection or enslavement of conquered peoples or colonial dependencies.
24 The analogy of tyranny and slavery in the relations between passions and reason or will, human bondage.


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