Cannibals All! Or, Slaves without MastersHarvard University Press, 30 Jun 2009 - 304 halaman Cannibals All got more attention in William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator than any other book in the history of that abolitionist journal. And Lincoln is said to have been more angered by George Fitzhugh than by any other pro-slavery writer, yet he unconsciously paraphrased Cannibals All in his House Divided speech. Fitzhugh was provocative because of his stinging attack on free society, laissez-faire economy, and wage slavery, along with their philosophical underpinnings. He used socialist doctrine to defend slavery and drew upon the same evidence Marx used in his indictment of capitalism. Socialism, he held, was only the new fashionable name for slavery, though slavery was far more humane and responsible, the best and most common form of socialism. His most effective testimony was furnished by the abolitionists themselves. He combed the diatribes of their friends, the reformers, transcendentalists, and utopians, against the social evils of the North. Why all this, he asked, except that free society is a failure? The trouble all started, according to Fitzhugh, with John Locke, a presumptuous charlatan, and with the heresies of the Enlightenment. In the great Lockean consensus that makes up American thought from Benjamin Franklin to Franklin Roosevelt, Fitzhugh therefore stands out as a lone dissenter who makes the conventional polarities between Jefferson and Hamilton, or Hoover and Roosevelt, seem insignificant. Beside him Taylor, Randolph, and Calhoun blend inconspicuously into the American consensus, all being apostles of John Locke in some degree. An intellectual tradition that suffers from uniformity--even if it is virtuous, liberal conformity--could stand a bit of contrast, and George Fitzhugh can supply more of it than any other American thinker. |
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... Revolution 119 XIII . The Reformation - The Right of Private Judgment 130 XIV . The Nomadic Beggars and Pauper Banditti of Eng- land 137 xv . Rural Life of England 146 XVI . The Distressed Needle - Women and Hood's " CONTENTS.
... Revolution 119 XIII . The Reformation - The Right of Private Judgment 130 XIV . The Nomadic Beggars and Pauper Banditti of Eng- land 137 xv . Rural Life of England 146 XVI . The Distressed Needle - Women and Hood's " CONTENTS.
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... revolutionary action . Nor was it simply that he was the outspoken champion of the dis- credited , despised , and abolished institution of Negro slavery . More important than the fall of the old order in explaining the eclipse of ...
... revolutionary action . Nor was it simply that he was the outspoken champion of the dis- credited , despised , and abolished institution of Negro slavery . More important than the fall of the old order in explaining the eclipse of ...
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... commenting upon the South's shift from the 1 Louis Hartz , The Liberal Tradition in America ( New York , 1955 ) , pp . 147 , 176 . 2 liberal doctrine of the Revolution to ante bellum conserva- GEORGE FITZHUGH , SUI GENERIS ix.
... commenting upon the South's shift from the 1 Louis Hartz , The Liberal Tradition in America ( New York , 1955 ) , pp . 147 , 176 . 2 liberal doctrine of the Revolution to ante bellum conserva- GEORGE FITZHUGH , SUI GENERIS ix.
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George FITZHUGH C. Vann Woodward. 2 liberal doctrine of the Revolution to ante bellum conserva- tism , Hartz writes : " Fitzhugh substituted for the social blind- ness of Jefferson a hopeless exaggeration of the truth . The South ...
George FITZHUGH C. Vann Woodward. 2 liberal doctrine of the Revolution to ante bellum conserva- tism , Hartz writes : " Fitzhugh substituted for the social blind- ness of Jefferson a hopeless exaggeration of the truth . The South ...
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... Revolution of 1688 , Fitzhugh was striking close to the philosophical underpin- nings of the American Revolution . His interpretation of the events of 1688 was similar to that later advanced by Marx . Far from " the consummation or ...
... Revolution of 1688 , Fitzhugh was striking close to the philosophical underpin- nings of the American Revolution . His interpretation of the events of 1688 was similar to that later advanced by Marx . Far from " the consummation or ...
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