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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... 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 and institu- tions he defended . It was not merely that ...
... 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 and institu- tions he defended . It was not merely that ...
Halaman viii
... thought . The triumph of a highly individualistic society no longer seems as permanent in this country as it once did ; nor does the disappearance of all forms of slavery before the advance of progress seem inevitable in the rest of the ...
... thought . The triumph of a highly individualistic society no longer seems as permanent in this country as it once did ; nor does the disappearance of all forms of slavery before the advance of progress seem inevitable in the rest of the ...
Halaman ix
... thought be re - examined , if only for the sharp relief in which it throws the habitual lineaments of the Ameri- can mind . Louis Hartz , who applauds America's rejection of Fitz- hugh , has deplored the prevailing indifference to what ...
... thought be re - examined , if only for the sharp relief in which it throws the habitual lineaments of the Ameri- can mind . Louis Hartz , who applauds America's rejection of Fitz- hugh , has deplored the prevailing indifference to what ...
Halaman x
... thought or of agrarian thought . Fitzhugh was not typical of anything . Fitzhugh was an individual — sui generis . There is scarcely a tag or a generalization or a cliche normally associated with the Old South that would fit him without ...
... thought or of agrarian thought . Fitzhugh was not typical of anything . Fitzhugh was an individual — sui generis . There is scarcely a tag or a generalization or a cliche normally associated with the Old South that would fit him without ...
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... journals to keep him abreast of " Ibid . , pp . 14-18 . 13 Fitzhugh , Cannibals All !, p . 192 . 14 Ibid . , p . 67 . 15 Ibid . , p . 192 . current thought and literature , periodicals such as die Edin- GEORGE FITZHUGH , SUI GENERIS xiii.
... journals to keep him abreast of " Ibid . , pp . 14-18 . 13 Fitzhugh , Cannibals All !, p . 192 . 14 Ibid . , p . 67 . 15 Ibid . , p . 192 . current thought and literature , periodicals such as die Edin- GEORGE FITZHUGH , SUI GENERIS xiii.
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