“But slavery does, in practice as well as in theory, acknowledge and enforce the right of all to be comfortably supported from the soil. There was, we repeat, no pauperism in Europe till feudal slavery was abolished.”

Source: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), pp. 307-308

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