Property is not a natural and divine, but conventional right; it is the mere creature of society and law… if private property generally were so used to injure, instead of promote public good, then society might and ought to destroy the whole institution.

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

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