Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters

By George Fitzhugh

Book Overview

"Cannibals All or, Slaves Without Masters" presents a controversial and compelling argument about labor and social order in the antebellum United States. George Fitzhugh, a prominent social theorist, challenges conventional views on slavery, offering a provocative defense of the institution.

Exploring themes of abolitionism, political philosophy, and the plantation system, Fitzhugh's work critiques free market capitalism, arguing that enslaved people in the South were better cared for than wage laborers in the North. He posits that all societies, including those that claim to be free, exploit workers. His sharp social commentary made him a prominent figure in debates over slavery.

This edition makes Fitzhugh's influential, albeit deeply problematic, text accessible to those interested in the history of slavery and nineteenth-century social and political thought. A vital resource for understanding the complex intellectual landscape surrounding slavery in the United States.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1023382490
• ISBN13: 9781023382496
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Anson Street Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Questions the morality of both capitalism & socialism

This book is a must read for all who desire to investigate the morality of economic and social systems. It lays plain the immorality of not only socialism, but capitalism as practiced today. The modern era of industrialism with its supposed abolition of slavery actually has resulted in the vast majority of men & women worse off than that of slaves - slaves without the benevolence of masters.Written in anti-bellum days, the ideas of this book have been buried underneath the rubble of the conquest of the confederacy. While Fitzhugh's ideas are in need of further exploration, such has never been done since his ideas are discarded by the feminized society in which we live. Hopefully they may rise again to be considered.