"Our slaves till the land, do the coarse and hard labor on our roads and canals, sweep our streets, cook our food, brush our boots, wait on our tables, hold our horses, do all hard work, and fill all menial offices. Your freemen at the North do the same work and fill the same offices. The only difference is, we love our slaves, and we are ready to defend, assist and protect them; you hate and fear your white servants, and never fail, as a moral duty, to screw down their wages to the lowest, and to starve their families, if possible, as evidence of your thrift, economy and managementāthe only English and Yankee virtues."
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George Fitzhugh
George Fitzhugh (November 4, 1806 ā July 30, 1881) was an American social theorist who published racial and slavery-based sociological theories in the antebellum era. He argued that the negro āis but a grown up childā who needs the economic and social protections of slavery. Fitzhugh decried capitalism as spawning āa war of the rich with the poor, and the poor with one anotherā ā rendering free blacks āfar outstripped or outwitted in the chase of free competition.ā
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