The labourers are still more unfortunate in being descended from bondsmen and serfs. Personal slavery or villanage formerly existed in Britain, and all the living labourers still suffer from the bondage of their ancestors.

— Thomas Hodgskin Labour Defended against the Claims of Capital (1825)

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