Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters

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Fitzhugh George. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters

DEDICATION. TO THE HONORABLE HENRY A. WISE

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. THE UNIVERSAL TRADE

CHAPTER II. LABOR, SKILL AND CAPITAL

CHAPTER III. SUBJECT CONTINUED – EXPLOITATION OF SKILL

CHAPTER IV. INTERNATIONAL EXPLOITATION

CHAPTER V. FALSE PHILOSOPHY OF THE AGE

CHAPTER VI. FREE TRADE, FASHION AND CENTRALIZATION

CHAPTER VII. THE WORLD IS TOO LITTLE GOVERNED

CHAPTER VIII. LIBERTY AND SLAVERY

CHAPTER IX. PALEY ON EXPLOITATION

CHAPTER X. OUR BEST WITNESSES AND MASTERS IN THE ART OF WAR

CHAPTER XI. DECAY OF ENGLISH LIBERTY, AND GROWTH OF ENGLISH POOR LAWS

CHAPTER XII. THE FRENCH LABORERS AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

CHAPTER XIII. THE REFORMATION – THE RIGHT OF PRIVATE JUDGMENT

CHAPTER XIV. THE NOMADIC BEGGARS AND PAUPER BANDITTI OF ENGLAND

CHAPTER XV "RURAL LIFE OF ENGLAND."

CHAPTER XVI. THE DISTRESSED NEEDLE-WOMEN AND HOOD'S SONG OF THE SHIRT

CHAPTER XVII. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW ON SOUTHERN SLAVERY

CHAPTER XVIII. THE LONDON GLOBE ON WEST INDIA EMANCIPATION

CHAPTER XIX. PROTECTION, AND CHARITY, TO THE WEAK

CHAPTER XX. THE FAMILY

CHAPTER XXI. NEGRO SLAVERY

CHAPTER XXII. THE STRENGTH OF WEAKNESS

CHAPTER XXIII. MONEY

CHAPTER XXIV. GERRIT SMITH ON LAND REFORM, AND WILLIAM LOYD GARRISON ON NO-GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER XXV. IN WHAT ANTI-SLAVERY ENDS

CHAPTER XXVI. CHRISTIAN MORALITY IMPRACTICABLE IN FREE SOCIETY – BUT THE NATURAL MORALITY OF SLAVE SOCIETY

CHAPTER XXVII. SLAVERY – ITS EFFECTS ON THE FREE

CHAPTER XXVIII. PRIVATE PROPERTY DESTROYS LIBERTY AND EQUALITY

CHAPTER XXIX. THE NATIONAL ERA AN EXCELLENT WITNESS

CHAPTER XXX. THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE ISMS – SHEWING WHY THEY ABOUND AT THE NORTH, AND ARE UNKNOWN AT THE SOUTH

CHAPTER XXXI. DEFICIENCY OF FOOD IN FREE SOCIETY

CHAPTER XXXII. MAN HAS PROPERTY IN MAN!

CHAPTER XXXIII. THE "COUP DE GRACE" TO ABOLITION

CHAPTER XXXIV. NATIONAL WEALTH, INDIVIDUAL WEALTH, LUXURY AND ECONOMY

CHAPTER XXXV. GOVERNMENT A THING OF FORCE, NOT OF CONSENT

CHAPTER XXXVI. WARNING TO THE NORTH

CHAPTER XXXVII. ADDENDUM

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I have endeavored, in this work, to treat the subjects of Liberty and Slavery in a more rigidly analytical manner than in "Sociology for the South;" and, at the same time, to furnish the reader with abundance of facts, authorities and admissions, whereby to test the truth of my views.

My chief aim has been to shew, that Labor makes values, and Wit exploitates and accumulates them; and hence to deduce the conclusion that the unrestricted exploitation of so-called free society, is more oppressive to the laborer than domestic slavery.

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It is impossible to place labor and capital in harmonious or friendly relations, except by the means of slavery, which identifies their interests. Would that gentleman lay his capital out in land and negroes, he might be sure, in whatever hands it came, that it would be employed to protect laborers, not to oppress them; for when slaves are worth near a thousand dollars a head, they will be carefully and well provided for. In any other investment he may make of it, it will be used as an engine to squeeze the largest amount of labor from the poor, for the least amount of allowance. 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 from nothing of his own, but allows them a part, generally a very small part, of the proceeds of their own labor. Free laborers pay one another, for labor creates all values, and capital, after taking the lion's share by its taxing power, but pays the so-called wages of one laborer from the proceeds of the labor of another. Capital does not breed, yet remains undiminished. Its profits are but its taxing power. Men seek to become independent, in order to cease to pay labor; in order to become masters, without the cares, duties and responsibilities of masters. Capital exercises a more perfect compulsion over free laborers, than human masters over slaves: for free laborers must at all times work or starve, and slaves are supported whether they work or not. Free laborers have less liberty than slaves, are worse paid and provided for, and have no valuable rights. Slaves, with more of actual practical liberty, with ampler allowance, and constant protection, are secure in the enjoyment of all the rights, which provide for their physical comfort at all times and under all circumstances. The free laborer must be employed or starve, yet no one is obliged to employ him. The slave is taken care of, whether employed or not. Though each free laborer has no particular master, his wants and other men's capital, make him a slave without a master, or with too many masters, which is as bad as none. It were often better that he had an ascertained master, instead of an irresponsible and unascertained one.

There are some startling social phenomena connected with this subject of labor and capital, which will probably be new to most of our readers. Legislators and philosophers often puzzle their own and other people's brains, in vain discussions as to how the taxes shall be laid, so as to fall on the rich rather than the poor. It results from our theory, that as labor creates all values, laborers pay all taxes, and the rich, in the words of Gerrit Smith, "are but the conduits that pass them over to government."

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