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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... Luxury , and Economy 241 xxxv . Government a Thing of Force , Not of Consent 243 XXXVI . Warning to the North 250 xxxvII . Addendum 257 Index 263 GEORGE FITZHUGH , SUI GENERIS If social theories regularly shared vi CONTENTS.
... Luxury , and Economy 241 xxxv . Government a Thing of Force , Not of Consent 243 XXXVI . Warning to the North 250 xxxvII . Addendum 257 Index 263 GEORGE FITZHUGH , SUI GENERIS If social theories regularly shared vi CONTENTS.
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... social systems in which they were born , the history of thought would be a thin and impoverished thing of purely contempo- rary dimensions . The theories of George Fitzhugh came very near suffering the fate that befell the social order ...
... social systems in which they were born , the history of thought would be a thin and impoverished thing of purely contempo- rary dimensions . The theories of George Fitzhugh came very near suffering the fate that befell the social order ...
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... social- ism is abhorred , mass production , mass organization , and mass culture render his insights more meaningful than they ever were in the old order of individualism . - It was Fitzhugh's constant complaint that his contemporary ...
... social- ism is abhorred , mass production , mass organization , and mass culture render his insights more meaningful than they ever were in the old order of individualism . - It was Fitzhugh's constant complaint that his contemporary ...
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... social blind- ness of Jefferson a hopeless exaggeration of the truth . The South exchanged a superficial thinker for a mad genius . " 2 I would not agree fully with either the praise or the indictment implied , but would cordially ...
... social blind- ness of Jefferson a hopeless exaggeration of the truth . The South exchanged a superficial thinker for a mad genius . " 2 I would not agree fully with either the praise or the indictment implied , but would cordially ...
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... social distress , economic suffering , and political revolt in both countries . " How can it be otherwise , " he asked , " when all society is combined to oppress the poor and weak minded ? " Since " Every man for himself , and devil ...
... social distress , economic suffering , and political revolt in both countries . " How can it be otherwise , " he asked , " when all society is combined to oppress the poor and weak minded ? " Since " Every man for himself , and devil ...
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