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George Fitzhugh was an American social theorist who published racial and slavery-based sociological theories in the antebellum era. He argued that the negro "is but a grown up child" who needs the economic and social protections of slavery. Fitzhugh decried capitalism as practiced by the Northern United States and Great Britain as spawning "a war of the rich with the poor, and the poor with one another", rendering free blacks "far outstripped or outwitted in the chase of free competition." Slavery, he contended, ensured that blacks would be economically secure and morally civilized.

Fitzhugh practiced law and was a painter for years, but attracted both fame and infamy when he published two sociological tracts for the South. He was a leading pro-slavery intellectual and spoke for many of the Southern plantation owners. Before printing books, Fitzhugh tried his hand at a pamphlet, "Slavery Justified" . His first book, Sociology for the South was not as widely known as his second book, Cannibals All! . Sociology for the South is the first known English-language book to include the term "sociology" in its title.Fitzhugh differed from nearly all of his southern contemporaries by advocating a slavery that crossed racial boundaries. In 1860 Fitzhugh stated, "It is a libel on white men to say they are unfit for slavery" and suggested that if Yankees were caught young they could be trained, domesticated and civilized to make "faithful and valuable servants." Writing in the Richmond Inquirer on 15 December 1855, Fitzhugh proclaimed, "The principle of slavery is in itself right, and does not depend on difference of complexion", "Nature has made the weak in mind or body slaves ... The wise and virtuous, the strong in body and mind, are born to command", and "The Declaration of Independence is exuberantly false, and aborescently fallacious." Wikipedia  

✵ 4. November 1806 – 30. Juli 1881
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“[T]he unrestricted exploitation of so-called free society is more oppressive to the laborer than domestic slavery.”

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George Fitzhugh

Quelle: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), p. ix

“The normal state of a free society is a state of famine.”

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Quelle: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), p. 335

“The weak in mind or body require guidance, support and protection; they must obey and work for those who protect and guide them—they have a natural right to guardians, committees, teachers or masters. Nature has made them slaves, all that law and government can do, is to regulate, modify and mitigate their slavery.”

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George Fitzhugh

Quelle: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 178

“What is falsely called Free Society, is a very recent invention. It purposes to make the weak, ignorant and poor, free, by turning them loose in a world owned exclusively by the few.”

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Quelle: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), p. 108

“No association, no efficient combination of labor can be effected till men give up their liberty of action and subject themselves to a common despotic head or ruler. This is slavery, and towards this socialism is moving.”

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Quelle: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 61

“[T]he capitalists now live entirely by the proceeds of poor men’s labor, which capital enables them to command.”

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Quelle: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), p. 325

“The Abolitionists and Socialists, who, alone have explored the recesses of social science, well understand that they can never establish their Utopia until private property is abolished or equalized. The man without property is theoretically, and, too often, practically, without a single right.”

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Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)

“The capitalist cheapens their wages; they compete with and underbid each other, for employed they must be on any terms. This war of the rich with the poor and the poor with one another, is the morality which political economy inculcates.”

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Quelle: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), pp. 22-23

“The vampire capitalist class impose all the taxes, and pay none.”

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Quelle: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), p. 175

“We conclude that about nineteen out of every twenty individuals have ‘a natural and inalienable right’ to be taken care of and protected; to have guardians, trustees, husbands, or masters; in other words, they have the natural and inalienable right to be slaves.”

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Quelle: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), pp. 102-103

“What a glorious thing to man is slavery, when want, misfortune, old age, debility and sickness overtake him.”

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Quelle: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 68

“Liberty is an evil which government is intended to correct. This is the sole object of government.”

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Quelle: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 170

“Were he a slave, he would enjoy in fact as well as in legal fiction, all necessary and essential rights. Pure air and water, a house, sufficient food, fire, and clothing, would be his at all times.”

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Quelle: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), p. 324

“Liberty of the press, liberty of speech, freedom of religion, or rather freedom from religion, and the unlimited right of private judgement have borne no good fruit, and many bad ones.”

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Quelle: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), p. 195

“Liberty and equality are not only destructive to the morals, but to the happiness of society.”

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Quelle: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 236

“…the great truth which lies at the foundation of all society—that every man has property in his fellow-man!”

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Quelle: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 69

“We say allowance, not wages; for neither slaves nor free laborers get wages, in the popular sense of the term: that is, the employer or capitalist pays them for nothing of his own, but allows them a part, generally a very small part of the proceeds of their own labor.”

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George Fitzhugh

Quelle: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), p. 48

“The true greatness of Mr. Jefferson was his fitness for revolution. He was the genius of innovation, the architect of ruin, the inaugurator of anarchy. His mission was to pull down, not to build up… He proposed to govern boys without the authority of masters or the control of religion, supplying their places with Laissez-faire philosophy, and morality from the pages of Lawrence Sterne. His character, like a philosophy, is exceptional—invaluable in urging on revolution, but useless, if not dangerous, in quiet times.”

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Quelle: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), pp. 201-202

“[Man] is not free because he has no where that he may rightfully lay his head. Private property has monopolized the earth, and destroyed both his liberty and equality.”

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George Fitzhugh

Quelle: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), p. 324

“The greatest of all communists, if communist he be, Proudhon, has also seen and exposed this tendency of socialism to slavery. He is a thorough-going enemy of modern free society; call property a thief; and would, he says, establish anarchy in place of government.”

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Quelle: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 62

“The great object of government is to restrict, control and punish man ‘in the pursuit of happiness.”

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Quelle: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 180

“Money is the great weapon in a free, equal and competitive society, which skill and capital employ in the war of the wits, to exploitate and oppress the poor, the improvident, and the weak-minded. Its evil effects are greatly aggravated by the credit and banking systems.”

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George Fitzhugh

Quelle: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), p. 303

“A mere verbal formula often distinguishes a truism from a paradox. ‘It is the duty of society to protect the weak;’ but protection cannot be efficient without the power of control; therefore, ‘It is the duty of society to enslave the weak’.”

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Quelle: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), p. 278

“Socialism, with such despotic head, approaches very near to Southern slavery, and gets along very well so long as the depot lives.”

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Quelle: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), p. 334

“But slavery does, in practice as well as in theory, acknowledge and enforce the right of all to be comfortably supported from the soil. There was, we repeat, no pauperism in Europe till feudal slavery was abolished.”

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George Fitzhugh

Quelle: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), pp. 307-308

“Free trade or political economy is the science of free society, and socialism is the science of slavery.”

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Quelle: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 61

“But the capitalist, living on his income, gives nothing to his subjects. He lives by mere exploitation.”

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Quelle: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), pp. 44-45

“There is no rivalry, no competition to get employment among slaves, as among free laborers. Nor is there a war between master and slave… His feeling for his slave never permits him to stint him in old age. The slaves are all well fed, well clad, have plenty of fuel, and are happy. They have no dread of the future—no fear of want. A state of dependence is the only condition in which reciprocal affection can exist among human beings—the only situation in which the war of competition ceases, and peace, amity and good will arise. A state of independence always begets more or less of jealous rivalry and hostility. A man loves his children because they are weak, helpless and dependent; he loves his wife for similar reasons.”

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George Fitzhugh

Quelle: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), pp. 246-247

“Free laborers have not a thousandth part of the rights and liberties of negro slaves. Indeed, they have not a single right or a single liberty, unless it be the right or liberty to die.”

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George Fitzhugh

Quelle: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), p. 31

“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.”

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George Fitzhugh

Quelle: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 185

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