George Fitzhugh Argues that Slavery is Better than Liberty and Equality, 1854. As the nineteenth century progressed, some Americans shifted their understanding of slavery from a necessary evil to a positive good. George Fitzhugh offered one of the most consistent and sophisticated defenses of slavery.
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In 1850 he published Slavery Justified; by a Southerner, the first of several essays in which he defended slavery by attacking what he called free society.
A Northern gentleman, who was both statesman and philosopher, once told us, that his only objection to domestic slavery was, that it would perpetuate an ...
Three-fourths of free society are slaves, no better treated, when their wants and capacities are estimated, than negro slaves. The masters in free society, or ...
Fitzhugh insisted that all labor, not merely black, had to be enslaved and that the world must become all slave or all free. He defined "slavery" broadly to ...
One of the most vehement proponents of this argument was George Fitzhugh (1806–1881), a Virginia lawyer, writer, and slaveowner. He believed that civilization ...
Fitzhugh was a prominent American social theorist who popularized a political and social justification for Southern slavery. Fitzhugh's groundbreaking writing ...
George Fitzhugh: Slavery Justified (1854). · Virginia attorney George Fitzhugh argues that slavery benefited masters and slaves, and produced a society more ...
By George Fitzhugh ... In it, Fitzhugh makes an argument about slavery ... The new year of 1854 found slavery excluded from more than half the States by State ...
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