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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George FITZHUGH C. Vann Woodward. current thought and literature , periodicals such as die Edin- burgh Review , the Westminster Review , Blackwood's Maga zine , and the North British Review . More in keeping with his station and his time ...
George FITZHUGH C. Vann Woodward. current thought and literature , periodicals such as die Edin- burgh Review , the Westminster Review , Blackwood's Maga zine , and the North British Review . More in keeping with his station and his time ...
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... thought . " We have com- mitted the latter error . " 24 Like his contemporary , Henry C. Carey of Philadelphia , Fitzhugh advocated a system of vigo- rous government participation in economic development , but he urged it upon Virginia ...
... thought . " We have com- mitted the latter error . " 24 Like his contemporary , Henry C. Carey of Philadelphia , Fitzhugh advocated a system of vigo- rous government participation in economic development , but he urged it upon Virginia ...
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... thought of its successor as still bolder and even more novel . The very title , Cannibals All ! proclaimed the moral relativism with which he proposed to affront conven- tional American values . He realized at the outset , he said ...
... thought of its successor as still bolder and even more novel . The very title , Cannibals All ! proclaimed the moral relativism with which he proposed to affront conven- tional American values . He realized at the outset , he said ...
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... thought the author " a little fond of paradoxes , a little inclined to run a theory into extremes , and a little impractical . " But on the whole the Southern re- ception was enthusiastic . The book , after all , marked an ad- vance to ...
... thought the author " a little fond of paradoxes , a little inclined to run a theory into extremes , and a little impractical . " But on the whole the Southern re- ception was enthusiastic . The book , after all , marked an ad- vance to ...
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... thought was " unlimited in its sweep , " a " universal view " that " exceeded the planting view and the agrarian view in its scope of details , in its diversity of content , and in its reach of time . " 56 He would seem to de- serve ...
... thought was " unlimited in its sweep , " a " universal view " that " exceeded the planting view and the agrarian view in its scope of details , in its diversity of content , and in its reach of time . " 56 He would seem to de- serve ...
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