...of commentators on this question, namely, that the male sex is set up as the only governors in * "I understand by slavery that condition in which one...physical, intellectual, and moral, but the comfort, advantages, or caprices of others. In short, wherever service is rendered from one human being to another,...

...let us see what a filave is. Good old Horace Greeley's definition of human slavery was as follows: "I understand by slavery, that condition in which one...exists mainly as a convenience for other human beings." Now, do you exist mainly for yourself or for the owner of your job? He gets more from your toil in...

...distant servitude, when I discern its essence pervading my immediate community and neighborhood ? / understand by Slavery, that condition in which one...service is rendered from one human being to another . . . where the relation ... is one not of affection and reciprocal good offices, but of authority,...

...slavery in the United States. "I understand by slavery," he wrote to an anti-slavery convention in 1845, "that condition in which one human being exists mainly...physical, intellectual and moral, but the comfort, advantages and caprices of others. . . . If I am less troubled regarding the slavery prevalent in Charleston...

...necessities, not less stringent than those imposed by statute. We must seek some other definition. "I understand by slavery that condition in which one...convenience for other human beings — in which the time, exertions, the faculty of a part of the human family are made to subserve, not their own development,...

...Horace Greeley, always a less literal Fourierist, defined slavery to encompass all social relationships in which "one human being exists mainly as a convenience for other human beings"; he included all class systems and land monopolies in that category.1 Unlike Fourier, however, American...

...Although he sets out to narrowly define slavery in his letter, he often generalizes about an abstract slavery, "that condition in which one human being...exists mainly as a convenience for other human beings," including "your own wives, children, hired men and women, tenants, &c" (353). For Greeley, slavery...

...necessities, not less stringent than those imposed by statute. We must seek some other definition. "I understand by slavery that condition in which one...being exists mainly as a convenience for other human beings—in which the time, exertions, the faculty of a part of the human family are made to subserve,...