Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters
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"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...
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- CANNIBALS ALL!
- SLAVES WITHOUT MASTERS.
- GEORGE FITZHUGH,
- OF PORT ROYAL, CAROLINE, VA.
- RICHMOND, VA. A. MORRIS, PUBLISHER. 1857.
- C. H. WYNNE, PRINTER, RICHMOND.
- CONTENTS.
- DEDICATION.
- TO THE HONORABLE HENRY A. WISE.
- PREFACE.
- INTRODUCTION.
- CANNIBALS ALL!
- CHAPTER I.
- THE UNIVERSAL TRADE.
- CHAPTER II.
- LABOR, SKILL AND CAPITAL.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER III.
- SUBJECT CONTINUED—EXPLOITATION OF SKILL.
- CHAPTER IV.
- INTERNATIONAL EXPLOITATION.
- CHAPTER V.
- FALSE PHILOSOPHY OF THE AGE.
- CHAPTER VI.
- FREE TRADE, FASHION AND CENTRALIZATION.
- CHAPTER VII.
- THE WORLD IS TOO LITTLE GOVERNED.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- LIBERTY AND SLAVERY.
- Paley on Civil Liberty:
- Montesquieu on Liberty:
- Blackstone on Liberty:
- CHAPTER IX.
- PALEY ON EXPLOITATION.
- CHAPTER X.
- OUR BEST WITNESSES AND MASTERS IN THE ART OF WAR.
- MY TRIP TO THE NORTH.
- LETTER TO MR. HOGEBOOM.
- LETTER TO MR. GARRISON.
- LETTER TO MR. GREELY.
- CHAPTER XI.
- DECAY OF ENGLISH LIBERTY, AND GROWTH OF ENGLISH POOR LAWS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XII.
- THE FRENCH LABORERS AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XIII.
- THE REFORMATION—THE RIGHT OF PRIVATE JUDGMENT.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- THE NOMADIC BEGGARS AND PAUPER BANDITTI OF ENGLAND.
- IRISH PEASANTRY.
- CHAPTER XV.
- "RURAL LIFE OF ENGLAND."
- CHAPTER XVI.
- THE DISTRESSED NEEDLE-WOMEN AND HOOD'S SONG OF THE SHIRT.
- THE SONG OF THE SHIRT.
- SLAVERY.
- CHAPTER XVII.
- THE EDINBURGH REVIEW ON SOUTHERN SLAVERY.
- [From the Edinburgh Review, 1846.]
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XVIII.
- THE LONDON GLOBE ON WEST INDIA EMANCIPATION.
- CHAPTER XIX.
- PROTECTION, AND CHARITY, TO THE WEAK.
- CHAPTER XX.
- THE FAMILY.
- CHAPTER XXI.
- NEGRO SLAVERY.
- CHAPTER XXII.
- THE STRENGTH OF WEAKNESS.
- CHAPTER XXIII.
- MONEY.
- UTOPIA; OR, THE HAPPY REPUBLIC.
- CHAPTER XXIV.
- GERRIT SMITH ON LAND REFORM, AND WILLIAM LOYD GARRISON ON NO-GOVERNMENT.
- CHAPTER XXV.
- IN WHAT ANTI-SLAVERY ENDS.
- CHAPTER XXVI.
- CHRISTIAN MORALITY IMPRACTICABLE IN FREE SOCIETY—BUT THE NATURAL MORALITY OF SLAVE SOCIETY.
- CHAPTER XXVII.
- SLAVERY—ITS EFFECTS ON THE FREE.
- CHAPTER XXVIII.
- PRIVATE PROPERTY DESTROYS LIBERTY AND EQUALITY.
- CHAPTER XXIX.
- THE NATIONAL ERA AN EXCELLENT WITNESS.
- CHAPTER XXX.
- THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE ISMS—SHEWING WHY THEY ABOUND AT THE NORTH, AND ARE UNKNOWN AT THE SOUTH.
- CHAPTER XXXI.
- DEFICIENCY OF FOOD IN FREE SOCIETY.
- CHAPTER XXXII.
- MAN HAS PROPERTY IN MAN!
- CHAPTER XXXIII.
- THE "COUP DE GRACE" TO ABOLITION.
- CHAPTER XXXIV.
- NATIONAL WEALTH, INDIVIDUAL WEALTH, LUXURY AND ECONOMY.
- CHAPTER XXXV.
- GOVERNMENT A THING OF FORCE, NOT OF CONSENT.
- CHAPTER XXXVI.
- WARNING TO THE NORTH.
- CHAPTER XXXVII.
- ADDENDUM.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE END.
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