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1806–1881 United States

George Fitzhugh (November 4, 1806 – July 30, 1881) was an American social theorist who published racial and slavery-based sociological theories in the antebellum era. He argued that the negro “is but a grown up child” who needs the economic and social protections of slavery.

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The negro slaves of the South are the happiest, and, in some sense, the freest people in the world.

Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)

A man loves his children because they are weak, helpless and dependent; he loves his wife for similar reasons.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

Liberty and equality are not only destructive to the morals, but to the happiness of society.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

What a glorious thing to man is slavery, when want, misfortune, old age, debility and sickness overtake him.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

Free trade or political economy is the science of free society, and socialism is the science of slavery.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

Slavery relieves our slaves of these cares altogether, and slavery is a form, and the very best form, of socialism.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

Naturally, Southerners, like slaveholders, are liberal and public spirited.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

The slaves are all well fed, well clad, have plenty of fuel, and are happy. They have no dread of the future—no fear of want.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

Socialism, with such despotic head, approaches very near to Southern slavery, and gets along very well so long as the depot lives.

Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)

Slavery protects the infants, the aged and the sick; nay, takes far better care of them of the healthy, the middle-aged and the strong.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

The vampire capitalist class impose all the taxes, and pay none.

Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)

The normal state of a free society is a state of famine.

Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)

Private property destroys liberty and equality.

Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)

The great object of government is to restrict, control and punish man ‘in the pursuit of happiness.’

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

Slavery is a form, and the very best form, of socialism.

All concur that free society is a failure. We slaveholders say you must recur to domestic slavery, the oldest, the best and most common form of Socialism.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

The husband has a legally recognized property in his wife’s services, and may legally control, in some measure, her personal liberty. She is his property and his slave.

Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)

But the capitalist, living on his income, gives nothing to his subjects. He lives by mere exploitation.

Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)

The bestowing upon men equality of rights, is but giving license to the strong to oppress the weak. It begets the grossest inequalities of condition.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

What is falsely called Free Society, is a very recent invention. It purposes to make the weak, ignorant and poor, free, by turning them loose in a world owned exclusively by the few.

Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Fitzhugh (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.