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  1. Summary of Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters

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    Cannibals All! In his 1857 essay Cannibals All!, Fitzhugh took aim at the “wage-slavery” prevalent in the North. He contended that whereas Southern slave-owners had a vested interested in the continued health and well-being of their slaves as property, the Northern laborer’s situation was less preferable.
    George Fitzhugh’s views were certainly unique in the Antebellum. Although many of his countrymen might have shared his view about the inferiority of blacks, the idea of white slavery in America was not an appealing selling point for his ideology.
    Fitzhugh’s ideas exemplified southern notions of paternalism. George Fitzhugh, a southern writer of social treatises, was a staunch supporter of slavery, not as a necessary evil but as what he argued was a necessary good, a way to take care of enslaved persons and keep them from being a burden on society.
    Thus in exchange for a little labor (since nine hours picking cotton in the Southern sun seemed to Fitzhugh to require little effort at all), these slaves had “all the comforts and necessaries of life provided for them” and didn’t need to worry their childlike minds with the details of running a farm, since that duty fell to their cleverer masters.
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  4. The Southern Argument for Slavery [ushistory.org]

    WEBLearn how slaveholders used biblical, economic, historical, and humanitarian arguments to defend slavery in the 1800s. The web page explains the main points of the Southern Argument for Slavery and …

  5. George Fitzhugh - Wikipedia

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  8. Summary of Sociology for the South, or, The Failure of Free Society

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