Cannibals all! or, Slaves without mastersFitzhugh, George
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Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters
Fitzhugh, George
Slave labor; Slavery -- Justification; Slavery -- United States; Working class
followed the example of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and portrayed the
condition of the inferior classes in Europe, as a much more
legitimate object of European sympathy and consideration than
American Slavery. Where the evidence is so abundant and
voluminous, selection would be as unnecessary as it would be
tedious. It is within the reach of every one who desires to
consult it; and we need not load our pages with extracts to prove
what has been frequently and sufficiently proved before, and what
is so notoriously true as to be undeniable. A few quotations to
illustrate the condition of free labor societies we may indeed
quote at a later period, in connection with a different division
of the argument; but they are wholly unnecessary to confirm the
allegation of the wretchedness and depravity which are consuming
the vitals of the principal free societies of the Nineteenth
Century. They are rendered still more unnecessary by the fact that
the acceptability of Socialism in all of those communities,
betrays the extent of both the misery and the social disease to be
cured; and the confession of the multitude of recent writers on
social topics, admits not merely the evils which we have
specified, and their dependence on the theory and practice of free
societies, but acknowledges also the truth of the general
conclusion, that the free societies enumerated have unquestionably
failed, they have not produced the permanent or general blessings
anticipated from them, they have produced overwhelming social
disaster, multiplied indefinitely the woes and the vices of the
poor, threatened all society and government and national existence
in those communities, and announced a future so dark that little
more than its gloom and spectral shapes can be distinctly
recognized.
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