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** Everything we know about wizarding society indicates they'd have felt themselves perfectly justified in casting spells to make sure that no House Elf ever overstepped its bounds again. And this was in the seventeenth century, before the idea of 'rights' had made much headway even for humans.

* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s "The Hyborian Age", the [[Backstory]] to [[Conan]], Lemurians.

{{quote| ''In the distant east, cut off from the rest of the world by the heaving up of gigantic mountains and the forming of a chain of vast lakes, the Lemurians are toiling as slaves of their ancient masters.''}}

{{quote|''In the distant east, cut off from the rest of the world by the heaving up of gigantic mountains and the forming of a chain of vast lakes, the Lemurians are toiling as slaves of their ancient masters.''}}

* In L. Jagi Lamplighter's ''[[Prospero's Daughter]]'' trilogy, the air spirits were enslaved by Prospero for a millenium, not yet up. Miranda realizes at one point that participating in this is blocking her desire to be a Sibyl -- but also realizes that if she frees them they will cause havoc. Indeed, when they ask for their freedom, and she asks if they can prevent such havoc, they concede that it would be difficult and start to consider ways it could be done.

* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[Hermetic Millenium|Count to a Trillion]]'', the aliens' plan. Not forever -- just until humanity pays off the price of conquering them, plus a reasonable profit.