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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... thing of purely contempo- rary dimensions . The theories of George Fitzhugh came very near suffering the fate that befell the social order and institu- tions he defended . It was not merely that he was the spokes- man of a cause that ...
... thing of purely contempo- rary dimensions . The theories of George Fitzhugh came very near suffering the fate that befell the social order and institu- tions he defended . It was not merely that he was the spokes- man of a cause that ...
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... thing , Fitzhugh was decidedly not an agrarian , for in his opinion " the wit of man can devise no means so ef- fectual to impoverish a country as exclusive agriculture . " Manufacturing and commerce were the road to wealth . " Farming ...
... thing , Fitzhugh was decidedly not an agrarian , for in his opinion " the wit of man can devise no means so ef- fectual to impoverish a country as exclusive agriculture . " Manufacturing and commerce were the road to wealth . " Farming ...
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... things under the sun . " France and the Northern states of the union , the only parts of the world that had given the combi- nation an extensive trial , had proved the experiment was " self - destructive and impracticable " and had ...
... things under the sun . " France and the Northern states of the union , the only parts of the world that had given the combi- nation an extensive trial , had proved the experiment was " self - destructive and impracticable " and had ...
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... 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 people , no ... thing , they must first destroy and eradicate man's human xviii GEORGE FITZHUGH , SUI GENERIS.
... 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 people , no ... thing , they must first destroy and eradicate man's human xviii GEORGE FITZHUGH , SUI GENERIS.
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