Produced by Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) CANNIBALS ALL! OR, SLAVES WITHOUT MASTERS. BY GEORGE FITZHUGH, OF PORT ROYAL, CAROLINE, VA. "His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him."--GEN. XVI. 12. "Physician, heal thyself."--LUKE IV. 23. RICHMOND, VA. A. MORRIS, PUBLISHER. 1857. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by ADOLPHUS MORRIS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia. C. H. WYNNE, PRINTER, RICHMOND. CONTENTS. PAGE. DEDICATION vii PREFACE ix INTRODUCTION xiii CHAPTER I. The Universal Trade 25 CHAPTER II. Labor, Skill and Capital 33 CHAPTER III. Subject Continued--Exploitation of Skill 58 CHAPTER IV. International Exploitation 75 CHAPTER V. False Philosophy of the Age 79 CHAPTER VI. Free Trade, Fashion and Centralization 86 CHAPTER VII. The World is _Too Little_ Governed 97 CHAPTER VIII. Liberty and Slavery 106 CHAPTER IX. Paley on Exploitation 124 CHAPTER X. Our best Witnesses and Masters in the Art of War 127 CHAPTER XI. Decay of English Liberty, and growth of English Poor Laws 157 CHAPTER XII. The French Laborers and the French Revolution 176 CHAPTER XIII. The Reformation--The Right of Private Judgment 194 CHAPTER XIV. The Nomadic Beggars and Pauper Banditti of England 204 CHAPTER XV. "Rural Life of England," 218 CHAPTER XVI. The Distressed Needle-Women and Hood's Song of the Shirt 223 CHAPTER XVII. The Edinburgh Review on Southern Slavery 236 CHAPTER XVIII. The London Globe on West India Emancipation 274 CHAPTER XIX. Protection, and Charity, to the Weak 278 CHAPTER XX. The Family 281 CHAPTER XXI. Negro Slavery 294 CHAPTER XXII. The Strength of Weakness 300