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Paperback Cannibals All! Or, Slaves Without Masters Book

ISBN: 0674094514

ISBN13: 9780674094512

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...

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Questions the morality of both capitalism & socialism

This book is a must read for all who desire to investigate the morality of economic and social systems. It lays plain the immorality of not only socialism, but capitalism as practiced today. The modern era of industrialism with its supposed abolition of slavery actually has resulted in the vast majority of men & women worse off than that of slaves - slaves without the benevolence of masters.Written in anti-bellum days, the ideas of this book have been buried underneath the rubble of the conquest of the confederacy. While Fitzhugh's ideas are in need of further exploration, such has never been done since his ideas are discarded by the feminized society in which we live. Hopefully they may rise again to be considered.
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