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George Fitzhugh on Slavery

1806–1881 United States

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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)

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)

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)

With thinking men, the question can never arise, who ought to be free? Because no one ought to be free. All government is slavery.

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

[T]he unrestricted exploitation of so-called free society is more oppressive to the laborer than domestic slavery.

Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)

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