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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... Natural Morality of Slave Society 217 XXVII . Slavery - Its Effects on the Free 220 XXVIII . Private Property Destroys Liberty and Equality 222 XXIX . The National Era an Excellent Witness 225 xxx . The Philosophy of the Isms - Showing ...
... Natural Morality of Slave Society 217 XXVII . Slavery - Its Effects on the Free 220 XXVIII . Private Property Destroys Liberty and Equality 222 XXIX . The National Era an Excellent Witness 225 xxx . The Philosophy of the Isms - Showing ...
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... nature of his adversaries . " They are divided into hundreds of little guerrilla bands of Isms , " he said , " each having its peculiar partisan tactics , and we are compelled to vary our mode of attack from regular cannonade to ...
... nature of his adversaries . " They are divided into hundreds of little guerrilla bands of Isms , " he said , " each having its peculiar partisan tactics , and we are compelled to vary our mode of attack from regular cannonade to ...
Halaman xix
... nature . " 26 In that the socialists shared the fallacies of the philosophers who founded free society . The trouble ... natural in- equalities beget inequalities of rights . " " It would be far nearer the truth to say , ' that some were ...
... nature . " 26 In that the socialists shared the fallacies of the philosophers who founded free society . The trouble ... natural in- equalities beget inequalities of rights . " " It would be far nearer the truth to say , ' that some were ...
Halaman xx
... nature lasts . " 28 His distant kinsman , George Mason , author of the Virginia Bill of Rights , had carried self - deception to the point of solemnly forbidding " such harmless baubles as titles of nobility and coats of arms , " and ...
... nature lasts . " 28 His distant kinsman , George Mason , author of the Virginia Bill of Rights , had carried self - deception to the point of solemnly forbidding " such harmless baubles as titles of nobility and coats of arms , " and ...
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... nature , than to be guided by the ignis fatuus of a priori speculations of closet philosophers . " » 31 Encouraged by the reception of his Sociology in " the con- fidence that we address a public predisposed to approve our doctrine ...
... nature , than to be guided by the ignis fatuus of a priori speculations of closet philosophers . " » 31 Encouraged by the reception of his Sociology in " the con- fidence that we address a public predisposed to approve our doctrine ...
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