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Cannibals all!, or, Slaves without masters

George Fitzhugh (Author), C. Vann Woodward (Editor)
Fitzhugh (1806–1881) offers a stinging attack on free society, laissez-faire economy, and wage slavery, and their philosophical underpinnings, using socialist doctrine to defend slavery. Drawing on the same evidence Marx used in his indictment of capitalism, he holds that socialism is only “the new fashionable name for slavery.”
eBook, English, 1988
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1988
1 online resource (xxxix, 264 pages)
9780674094512, 9780674036925, 0674094514, 0674036921
191821380
Dedication Preface Introduction 1. The Universal Trade 2. Labor, Skill, and Capital 3. Subject Continued--Exploitation of Skill 4. International Exploitation 5. False Philosophy of the Age 6. Free Trade, Fashion, and Centralization 7. The World is Too Little Governed 8. Liberty and Slavery 9. Paley on Exploitation 10. Our Best Witnesses and Masters in the Art of War 11. Decay of English Liberty, and Growth of English Poor Laws 12. The French Laborers and the French Revolution 13. The Reformation--The Right of Private Judgment 14. The Nomadic Beggars and Pauper Banditti of England 15. Rural Life of England 16. The Distressed Needle-Women and Hood's "Song of the Shirt" 17. The Edinburgh Review on Southern Slavery 18. The London Globe on West India Emancipation 19. Protection and Charity to the Weak 20. The Family 21. Negro Slavery 22. The Strength of Weakness 23. Money 24. Gerrit Smith on Land Reform, and William Lloyd Garrison on No-Government 25. In What Anti-Slavery Ends 26. Christian Morality Impracticable in Free Society--But the Natural Morality of Slave Society 27. Slavery--Its Effects on the Free 28. Private Property Destroys Liberty and Equality 29. The National Era an Excellent Witness 30. The Philosophy of the Isms--Showing Why They Abound at the North, and Are Unknown at the South 31. Deficiency of Food in Free Society 32. Man Has Property in Man 33. The Coup de Grace to Abolition 34. National Wealth, Individual Wealth, Luxury, and Economy 35. Government a Thing of Force, Not of Consent 36. Warning to the North 37. Addendum Index
Includes index