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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... hand without evaluation or understanding . He would have been more crushed by the total neglect of posterity , even in the South , until quite re- cently . For an intellectual tradition that stands in desperate need of contrast and ...
... hand without evaluation or understanding . He would have been more crushed by the total neglect of posterity , even in the South , until quite re- cently . For an intellectual tradition that stands in desperate need of contrast and ...
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... hands shortly after his death in 1829. That year , however , the son improved his lot somewhat by marrying Mary Brockenbrough of Port Royal , Caroline County , and promptly moving into his wife's home . This was described later by an ...
... hands shortly after his death in 1829. That year , however , the son improved his lot somewhat by marrying Mary Brockenbrough of Port Royal , Caroline County , and promptly moving into his wife's home . This was described later by an ...
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... hand in hand . " Above all it was important to provide public education . " Poor [ white ] people can see things as well as rich people . We can't hide the facts from them . . . The path of safety is the path of duty ! Edu- cate the ...
... hand in hand . " Above all it was important to provide public education . " Poor [ white ] people can see things as well as rich people . We can't hide the facts from them . . . The path of safety is the path of duty ! Edu- cate the ...
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... hand , " The negro slaves of the South are the hap- piest , and , in some sense , the freest people in the world . " 38 In Fitzhugh's philosophy the idea of progress was a modern delusion . Modern history , in fact , was a record not of ...
... hand , " The negro slaves of the South are the hap- piest , and , in some sense , the freest people in the world . " 38 In Fitzhugh's philosophy the idea of progress was a modern delusion . Modern history , in fact , was a record not of ...
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... hand . " We contend that it was the origin of the capitalist and moneyed interest government , destined finally to swallow all other powers in the State , and to bring about the most selfish , exacting and unfeeling class despotism ...
... hand . " We contend that it was the origin of the capitalist and moneyed interest government , destined finally to swallow all other powers in the State , and to bring about the most selfish , exacting and unfeeling class despotism ...
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