It is asserted that domestic slavery has always been a constructive social element: history shows that it has always been destructive. History authoritatively establishes the fact that slavery is the most corroding social disease, and one, too, which acts most fatally on the slaveholding element in a community.

Not disease, but health, is the normal condition of man's physical organism: not oppression but freedom is the normal condition of human society. The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of nature or the laws of hygiene.

Contents:

Egyptians

Phœnicians

Libyans

Carthaginians

Hebrews, or Beni-Israel

Nabatheans

Assyrians and Babylonians

Medes and Persians

Aryas—Hindus

Chinese

Greeks

Romans—Republicans

Romans—Political Slaves

Christianity: its Churches and Creeds

Gauls

Germans

Longobards—Italians

Franks—French

Britons, Anglo-Saxons, English

Slavi, Slavonians, Slaves, Russians