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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
Barbary, in quest of men, laid the foundations of Greek commerce; each commercial town was a slave-mart; and every cottage near the sea-side was in danger from the kidnapper. Thucydides, l. i. c. v. Greeks enslaved each other. The Chap. V.} language of Homer was the mother-tongue of the Helots; the Grecian city that made war on its neighbor city, exulted in its captives as a source of profit; Arist. Pol., l. i. c. 2, censures the practice, which was yet the common law. the hero of Macedon sold men of his own kindred and language into hopeless slavery. The idea of universal free labor had not been generated. Aristotle had written that all mankind are brothers; yet the thought of equal enfranchisement never presented itself to his sagacious understanding. In every Grecian republic, slavery was an indispensable element. The wide diffusion of bondage throughout the do minions of Rome, and the extreme severities of the Roman law towards the slave, contributed to hasten the