chain-harnessed

Updated: May 2, 2025

I will say nothing of the grinding oppression of capital upon labor, in the power of the master over the hireling the crushed peasant the chain-harnessed coal-pit woman, a thousand feet under ground, working in darkness, her child toiling by her side, and another child not born; I will say nothing of the press-gang which fills the navy of Britain the conscription which makes the army of France the terrible floggings the awful court-martial the quick sentence the lightning-shot the chain, and ball, and every-day lash the punishment of the soldier, sailor, slave, who had run away.

F. A. (Frederick Augustus) Ross - Slavery Ordained of God