Dr. Helen McCabe discusses with guest editor, Professor Zoe Trodd (Director of the Rights Lab) the ways in which four nineteenth-century feminists analyzed, and criticized, marriage as an institution similar to slavery, particularly in the way it made women dependent on men, and vulnerable to exploitation, violence, and abuse. She explains how this should prompt us to consider whether other forms of marriage might be forms of modern slavery, not only forced marriage, as well as useful ways of understanding how marriages might be “forced”, or consent is less than “full and free”.