History of the United States I / Unit 12 USH1 1709 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Fitzhugh
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The idea
George Fitzhugh published Sociology for the South in eighteen fifty-four, arguing laissez-faire capitalism benefited only the quick-witted and disadvantaged the ignorant.
In practice
His claim that slaveholders cared for enslaved people from birth to death.
Where people slip
He wrote that the negro is but a grown up child and must be governed as a child, the master occupying the place of parent.
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