“We were so robbed by the man that stands there, as all we common dogs are by those Superior beings-taxed by him without mercy, obliged to work for him without pay, obliged to grind our corn at his mill, obliged to feed scores of his tame birds on our wretched crops, and forbidden for our lives to keep a single tame bird of our own, pillaged and plundered to that degree when we chanced to have a bit of meat, we ate it in fear, with the door barred and windows shuttered, that his people should not see it and take it from us-I say we were robbed, and hunted, and were made so poor that our father told us it was a dreadful thing to bring a child into the world, and what we should most pray for, was, that our women might be barren and our miserable race die out.”
Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities”
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