Slave-owners and rich men, among a crowd of slave-descended famishing labourers, lead probably a more anxious and toilsome life in protecting their property, and in enforcing obedience to their orders, than the slaves whose labour they extort.

— Thomas Hodgskin Popular Political Economy: Four lectures delivered at the London Mechanics Institution (1827)

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