Quotes from Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters — George Fitzhugh
1806–1881 United States
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We contend that it was the origin of the capitalist and moneyed interest government, destined finally to swallow up all other powers in the State, and to bring about the most selfish, exacting, and unfeeling class despotism.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
Man is a social and gregarious animal, and all such animals hold property in each other. Nature imposes upon them slavery as a law and necessity of their existence… 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)