Fitzhugh, George 1806-1881
Overview
| Works: | 101 works in 257 publications in 2 languages and 8,391 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Controversial literature History |
| Roles: | Author |
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Most widely held works about
George Fitzhugh
- The world the slaveholders made; two essays in interpretation by Eugene D Genovese( Book )
- George Fitzhugh, propagandist of the old South by Harvey Wish( Book )
- George Fitzhugh : conservative of the old South by Harvey Wish( Book )
- Freedom's despots : the critique of abolition by Robert J Loewenberg( Book )
- American exceptionalism and the antebellum slavery debate by Travis Cormier( )
- Fitzhugh, George( )
- George Fitzhugh by Harvey Wish( Book )
- O Mundo dos Senhores de Escravos : dois ensaios de interpretação by Eugene D Genovese( Book )
- The political theory of George Fitzhugh by Leslee Harold Echart( Book )
- What shall this land produce? : pastoral and politics in the old South by John Miller Grammer( )
- An examination of the social theory of George Fitzhugh, and an analysis of his status in intellectual histoy today by Alan V Goldman( Book )
- Troubadour of the troubled colony : Southern culture and George Fitzhugh, 1830-1860 by Gary David Noy( )
- The social theories of George Fitzhugh by Mary Frances Baldwin( )
- Fitzhugh, George( )
- George Fitzhugh portrait collection( Visual )
- James D.B. De Bow papers by J. D. B De Bow( )
- The world the slaveholders made : two essays in interpretation : with a new introduction by Eugene D Genovese( Book )
- George Fitzhugh and authoritarianism by Diane DeSanders Elliott( Book )
- The ante-bellum political thought of George Fitzhugh by Guy William Mayes( )
- Papers of the Willis family by Willis family( )
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Most widely held works by
George Fitzhugh
Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by
George Fitzhugh(
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65 editions published between 1857 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,937 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Annotation Cannibals All! got more attention in William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator than any other book in the history of that abolitionist journal. And Lincoln is said to have been more angered by George Fitzhugh than by any other pro-slavery writer, yet he unconsciously paraphrased Cannibals All! in his House Divided speech. Fitzhugh was provocative because of his stinging attack on free society, laissez-faire economy, and wage slavery, along with their philosophical underpinnings. He used socialist doctrine to defend slavery and drew upon the same evidence Marx used in his indictment of capitalism. Socialism, he held, was only "the new fashionable name for slavery," though slavery was far more humane and responsible, "the best and most common form of socialism."His most effective testimony was furnished by the abolitionists themselves. He combed the diatribes of their friends, the reformers, transcendentalists, and utopians, against the social evils of the North. "Why all this," he asked, "except that free society is a failure?"The trouble all started, according to Fitzhugh, with John Locke, "a presumptuous charlatan," and with the heresies of the Enlightenment. In the great Lockean consensus that makes up American thought from Benjamin Franklin to Franklin Roosevelt, Fitzhugh therefore stands out as a lone dissenter who makes the conventional polarities between Jefferson and Hamilton, or Hoover and Roosevelt, seem insignificant. Beside him Taylor, Randolph, and Calhoun blend inconspicuously into the American consensus, all being apostles of John Locke in some degree. An intellectual tradition that suffers from uniformity--even if it is virtuous, liberal conformity--could stand a bit of contrast, and George Fitzhugh can supply more of it than any other American thinker
65 editions published between 1857 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,937 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Annotation Cannibals All! got more attention in William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator than any other book in the history of that abolitionist journal. And Lincoln is said to have been more angered by George Fitzhugh than by any other pro-slavery writer, yet he unconsciously paraphrased Cannibals All! in his House Divided speech. Fitzhugh was provocative because of his stinging attack on free society, laissez-faire economy, and wage slavery, along with their philosophical underpinnings. He used socialist doctrine to defend slavery and drew upon the same evidence Marx used in his indictment of capitalism. Socialism, he held, was only "the new fashionable name for slavery," though slavery was far more humane and responsible, "the best and most common form of socialism."His most effective testimony was furnished by the abolitionists themselves. He combed the diatribes of their friends, the reformers, transcendentalists, and utopians, against the social evils of the North. "Why all this," he asked, "except that free society is a failure?"The trouble all started, according to Fitzhugh, with John Locke, "a presumptuous charlatan," and with the heresies of the Enlightenment. In the great Lockean consensus that makes up American thought from Benjamin Franklin to Franklin Roosevelt, Fitzhugh therefore stands out as a lone dissenter who makes the conventional polarities between Jefferson and Hamilton, or Hoover and Roosevelt, seem insignificant. Beside him Taylor, Randolph, and Calhoun blend inconspicuously into the American consensus, all being apostles of John Locke in some degree. An intellectual tradition that suffers from uniformity--even if it is virtuous, liberal conformity--could stand a bit of contrast, and George Fitzhugh can supply more of it than any other American thinker
Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery by
Harvey Wish(
Book
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8 editions published in 1960 in English and held by 1,040 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
8 editions published in 1960 in English and held by 1,040 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Sociology for the South; or, The failure of free society by
George Fitzhugh(
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33 editions published between 1854 and 2012 in English and held by 863 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
<P>Written by one of the South's foremost intellectuals, this 1854 book defends slavery as a moral good and advocates slavery for poor whites as well as blacks.</p>
33 editions published between 1854 and 2012 in English and held by 863 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
<P>Written by one of the South's foremost intellectuals, this 1854 book defends slavery as a moral good and advocates slavery for poor whites as well as blacks.</p>
Slavery justified by
George Fitzhugh(
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12 editions published between 1850 and 1978 in English and Undetermined and held by 372 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
12 editions published between 1850 and 1978 in English and Undetermined and held by 372 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A controversy on slavery, between George Fitzhugh, Esq., of Virginia, author of "Sociology for the South," etc., and A. Hogeboom,
Esq., of New York by
George Fitzhugh(
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2 editions published in 1857 in English and held by 101 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1857 in English and held by 101 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Sociology for the South ; or, The failure of a free society by
George Fitzhugh(
Book
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3 editions published between 1854 and 2015 in English and held by 67 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published between 1854 and 2015 in English and held by 67 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Sociology for the south : or the failure of free society by
George Fitzhugh(
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5 editions published between 1854 and 2012 in English and held by 34 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
5 editions published between 1854 and 2012 in English and held by 34 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A controversy on slavery between George Fitzhugh and A. Hogeboom by
George Fitzhugh(
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4 editions published in 1857 in English and held by 27 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published in 1857 in English and held by 27 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
What shall be done with the free Negroes; essays written for the Fredericksburg recorder by
George Fitzhugh(
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4 editions published in 1851 in English and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published in 1851 in English and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ante-bellum by
George Fitzhugh(
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2 editions published in 1960 in English and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1960 in English and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Gerrit Smith on "The Index." by
Gerrit Smith(
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3 editions published in 1873 in English and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 1873 in English and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Cannibals All! by
George Fitzhugh(
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2 editions published between 1960 and 2008 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published between 1960 and 2008 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Cannibals all! or, Slaves without master by
George Fitzhugh(
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3 editions published in 1857 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 1857 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
CANNIBALS ALL! OR SLAVES WITHOUT MASTERS (CLASSIC REPRINT) by
George Fitzhugh(
Book
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1 edition published in 2015 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 2015 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The early sociology of race and ethnicity(
Book
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2 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Who are their friends? : to the editors of the Boston daily advertiser : let the mudsills of Massachusetts read what the chivalry
say of them and their masters the friends of the rebels here. by
Egilberto Martire(
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1 edition published in 1862 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 1862 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The world the slaveholders made; two essays in interpretation by
Eugene D Genovese(
Book
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1 edition published in 1969 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 1969 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Entails and Primogeniture by
George Fitzhugh(
)
in Undetermined and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/text/accesspolicy.html
in Undetermined and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/text/accesspolicy.html
Missionary Failures by
George Fitzhugh(
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in Undetermined and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/ACG1336-1310DEBO-63
in Undetermined and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/ACG1336-1310DEBO-63
Black Republicanism in Ancient Athens by
George Fitzhugh(
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in Undetermined and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/text/accesspolicy.html
in Undetermined and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/text/accesspolicy.html
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Related Identities
- Wish, Harvey 1909- Author Editor
- Genovese, Eugene D. 1930-2012 Author
- Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann) 1908-1999 Author Editor
- Helper, Hinton Rowan 1829-1909 Author
- Loewenberg, Robert J. 1938- Author
- Hogeboom, A.
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Documenting the American South (Project)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library
- Smith, Gerrit 1797-1874 Author
- Thompson, Kenneth
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George Fitzhugh American activist
George Fitzhugh Amerikaans advocaat (1806-1881)
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