caste-fenced

Updated: May 5, 2025

Step by step, by means of strenuous and disinterested exertions, employing prestige and encouragements, by legislation and otherwise, a breach was effected which bids fair to break down that caste-fenced and chained thraldom, and to raise over a hundred millions of her humble subject sisters from unnatural degradation to occupy the honourable and responsible rank assigned by the Creator to woman as man's social help, meet for him, and to whom honour is due as to the weaker vessel.

C. H. Thomas - Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.): The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked