ABSTRACT
John Stuart Mill recalls in his Autobiography that The Subjection of Women was actually drafted, at his daughter's suggestion, in 1861. The discussion of slavery in the first two volumes, and perhaps in part as a response to Mills 1835 review, Tocqueville devotes four chapters to the condition of women in the 1840 volumes. Mills first review of Tocqueville on the grounds that it contains little in the way of new ideas on Mills part. As in his review of 1835, Mill has rendered conservative resistance to democracy irrelevant, for it is illogical to argue that Tocqueville is the definitive authority on the subject but incorrect in his central point, that democracy is inevitable. He makes it clear that he does not wish for violent retribution against the South, but he does argue that one thing he hopes will be considered absolutely necessary: to break altogether the power of the slaveholding caste.
