William dividing England among his Normans is but an imitator of every successful invader of ancient times.

The new-comers having gained the land of a subdued people, that people, in order to subsist, must become the serfs of the land [65].

The more formidable warriors are mostly slain, or exiled, or conciliated by some remains of authority and possessions; the multitude remain the labourers of the soil, and slight alterations of law will imperceptibly convert the labourer into the slave.

The earliest slaves appear chiefly to have been the agricultural population.

If the possession of the government were acquited by colonizers [66],-- not so much by the force of arms as by the influence of superior arts -- the colonizers would in some instances still establish servitude for the multitude, though not under so harsh a name.