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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Halaman ix
... political thought , " he writes , " the moment when America almost got out of itself , as it were , and looked with some objectivity on the liberal formula it has known since birth . " While in his opinion the movement ran to fantasy ...
... political thought , " he writes , " the moment when America almost got out of itself , as it were , and looked with some objectivity on the liberal formula it has known since birth . " While in his opinion the movement ran to fantasy ...
Halaman xiv
... politics was only local , and he never stood for elective office . He was acquainted with a number of Virginia politicians , however , and managed to ingratiate himself with President Buchanan , who appointed him law clerk in the office ...
... politics was only local , and he never stood for elective office . He was acquainted with a number of Virginia politicians , however , and managed to ingratiate himself with President Buchanan , who appointed him law clerk in the office ...
Halaman xv
... political crises of Europe and America in 1848 and 1849 appear to have stimulated Fitzhugh's first independent publications , two pamphlets that appeared in Richmond in 1850 and 1851 and were later reprinted as an appendix to Sociology ...
... political crises of Europe and America in 1848 and 1849 appear to have stimulated Fitzhugh's first independent publications , two pamphlets that appeared in Richmond in 1850 and 1851 and were later reprinted as an appendix to Sociology ...
Halaman xvii
... political economists who advanced the proposition that social well - being was " best prompted by each man's eagerly pursuing his own selfish welfare un- fettered and unrestricted by legal regulations , or governmental prohibitions ...
... political economists who advanced the proposition that social well - being was " best prompted by each man's eagerly pursuing his own selfish welfare un- fettered and unrestricted by legal regulations , or governmental prohibitions ...
Halaman xxiv
... political upheaval in terms of material advantages or disadvantages accruing to conflicting social classes . The theory advanced in William Blackstone's Commentaries that the appearance of the House of Commons near the reign of Henry ...
... political upheaval in terms of material advantages or disadvantages accruing to conflicting social classes . The theory advanced in William Blackstone's Commentaries that the appearance of the House of Commons near the reign of Henry ...
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