Fitzhugh went further, asserting that slavery was biblically based and argued that capitalism made workers into slaves of capitalists. Capitalists were cannibals. Fitzhugh advocated slavery in the abstract, not merely for people of African descent.
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His study Sociology for the South attacked northern society as corrupt and slavery as a gentle system designed to “protect” the inferior Black race and promote ...
He believed that civilization depended upon the exploitation of labor. This led him to ask which system — slavery or free labor — exploited workers less. He ...
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 ...
George Fitzhugh was a Virginia lawyer and the author of two books and numerous articles advocating slavery. Says Fitzhugh, "... the negro race is inferior to ...
There is no rivalry, no competition to get employment among slaves, as among free laborers. Nor is there a war between master and slave. The masters interest ...
He argued that the negro was "but a grown up child" needing the economic and social protections of slavery. Fitzhugh decried capitalism as practiced by the ...
Yet he remained convinced that slavery was a rightful, necessary form of labor and that southern blacks should stay enslaved. Fitzhugh likewise considered the ...
Virginia attorney George Fitzhugh argues that slavery benefited masters and slaves, and produced a society more peaceful and productive than the free labor ...
One of the most vehement proponents of this argument was George Fitzhugh. (1806–1881), a Virginia lawyer, writer, and slaveowner. He believed that civilization ...
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