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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... free society and his defense of slavery was an extreme form of the labor theory of value , which he had absorbed , he said , from the socialists . " My chief aim , " he wrote in his Preface , " has been to show , that Labor makes values ...
... free society and his defense of slavery was an extreme form of the labor theory of value , which he had absorbed , he said , from the socialists . " My chief aim , " he wrote in his Preface , " has been to show , that Labor makes values ...
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... Free Society and Slaves Without Masters , are printed in larger type than the main titles . At any rate the disparity suggests the predominance of attack over defense in the author's polemics . In both works the great bulk of space is ...
... Free Society and Slaves Without Masters , are printed in larger type than the main titles . At any rate the disparity suggests the predominance of attack over defense in the author's polemics . In both works the great bulk of space is ...
Halaman xxvi
... free society in America , Fitzhugh bor- rowed freely from the tactics northern abolitionists employed in their propaganda against Southern slavery . The crimi- nology of the subject was employed as fair description of con- ditions , and ...
... free society in America , Fitzhugh bor- rowed freely from the tactics northern abolitionists employed in their propaganda against Southern slavery . The crimi- nology of the subject was employed as fair description of con- ditions , and ...
Halaman xxvii
... free society . He described the testimony of " the actual leaders and faithful exponents of abolition " whom he ... free society and entertained schemes for reform of the North as well as the South , each with his own panacea , Fitzhugh ...
... free society . He described the testimony of " the actual leaders and faithful exponents of abolition " whom he ... free society and entertained schemes for reform of the North as well as the South , each with his own panacea , Fitzhugh ...
Halaman xxviii
... free society which the abolitionists had already condemned as uninhabitable . Fitzhugh's books appeared at the height of the sectional controversy over slavery and the literary war it induced . It is all the more difficult for that ...
... free society which the abolitionists had already condemned as uninhabitable . Fitzhugh's books appeared at the height of the sectional controversy over slavery and the literary war it induced . It is all the more difficult for that ...
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