Slavery Is Better Than Liberty And Equality By George Fitzhugh

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After reading over the writing of George Fitzhugh and his argument that Slavery is Better than Liberty and Equality, I was shocked at his personal standings. He believed that slavery was not such a bad thing. He saw the slaves were treated fair, their jobs were benifitual for them because slavery would be an easier way of life than rather than having a typical labor paying job, and that they enjoyed the jobs they worked so hard on due to the fact that it was allowing them freedom. A statement that he made that was the most shocking to me was "slaves of the South are the happiest, and in some sense, the freest people in the world" this is such a crazy view on the lives of these people. As with Frederick Douglass "THE CHURCH AND PREJUDICE" he

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