The Chartist journalist Bronterre O’Brien argues that the modern propertyless worker is the descendant of the ancient slave. He traces slavery from paternal authority in the earliest societies through Greek and Roman opinion, compares ancient and modern exploitation of labour, and reads the early Christians and their persecutions as a movement of social reformers against the powerful.
A fierce, passionate work of early British socialism, valuable to historians of Chartism and the labour movement. Download the free EPUB.