Cannibals All Or, Slaves Without Masters

Title: Cannibals all , or, Slaves without masters.Author: George FitzhughPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04505100CollectionID: CTRG03-B907PublicationDate: 18570101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Collation: 379 p

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Title: Sociology for the South, or, The failure of free society.Author: George FitzhughPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04615200CollectionID: CTRG03-B1242PublicationDate: 18540101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Collation: 310 p.; 20 cm

Three Classic Works On Slavery In The Old South.

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. Is tbcre any geod renson why men should not be nllowcd to soil their liberty? Is it wise, politic or humane, to prevent the man, who sees his family starving around him, from hiring himself so as to bind his person, even for a day, a week, or a month, to save himself and family from death ? Could the poor Irish sell themselves and fnmilics for a term of years, to the farmers of our Northwestern .States, in order to pay their passage to this country, and secure them from want on their arrival, would there be any tiling unwise or unmerciful in the laws which permitted it? The law did once permit it, for Virginia was in great Part w"'C(l by indented servants, and by the descendants of girls bought up ir. London and sold to the planters here for wives. Indeed, all women literally sell their libertics when they marry, and very few repent of the bargain. Among the civilized States of antiquity, the right to sell one's liberty, we belicve, was universal. Is it not a curtailment of liberty to deny the right ? The starving poor would often think so. To the victim of intemperance who has; just recovered from an attack of delirium trcmcns, such a right would bo worth all the temperance societics in the world. His enervated will can no longer control him, and the law will not permit him to adopt the will of another. The law thus murders thousands annually, pretending all the while to guard and protect their rights. The army, the navy and the merchant service are filled with men of this description. It is the only refuge the law allows them. Those who were fittedfor liberty would not sell it, or if in somo moment of misfortune they did, they would buy that liberty agnin by the exercise of great economy: md industry. The right to purehase their own liberty has, in other countries, been a...

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. Is tbcre any geod renson why men should not be nllowcd to soil their liberty? Is it wise, politic or humane, to prevent the man, who sees his family starving around him, from hiring himself so as to bind his person, even for a day, a week, or a month, to save himself and family from death ? Could the poor Irish sell themselves and fnmilics for a term of years, to the farmers of our Northwestern .States, in order to pay their passage to this country, and secure them from want on their arrival, would there be any tiling unwise or unmerciful in the laws which permitted it? The law did once permit it, for Virginia was in great Part w"'C(l by indented servants, and by the descendants of girls bought up ir. London and sold to the planters here for wives. Indeed, all women literally sell their libertics when they marry, and very few repent of the bargain. Among the civilized States of antiquity, the right to sell one's liberty, we belicve, was universal. Is it not a curtailment of liberty to deny the right ? The starving poor would often think so. To the victim of intemperance who has; just recovered from an attack of delirium trcmcns, such a right would bo worth all the temperance societics in the world. His enervated will can no longer control him, and the law will not permit him to adopt the will of another. The law thus murders thousands annually, pretending all the while to guard and protect their rights. The army, the navy and the merchant service are filled with men of this description. It is the only refuge the law allows them. Those who were fittedfor liberty would not sell it, or if in somo moment of misfortune they did, they would buy that liberty agnin by the exercise of great economy: md industry. The right to purehase their own liberty has, in other countries, been a...

"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--couldstand a bit of contrast, and George Fitzhugh can supply more of it than any other American thinker.