The negro is improvident; will not lay up in summer for the wants of winter; will not accumulate in youth for the exigencies of age. He would become an insufferable burden to society. Society has the right to prevent this, and can only do so by subjecting him to domestic slavery.

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

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