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  CANNIBALS ALL!
  OR,
  SLAVES WITHOUT MASTERS.

  BY

  GEORGE FITZHUGH,
  OF PORT ROYAL, CAROLINE, VA.

  "His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against
  him."--GEN. XVI. 12.

  "Physician, heal thyself."--LUKE IV. 23.

  RICHMOND, VA.
  A. MORRIS, PUBLISHER.
  1857.


  Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by
  ADOLPHUS MORRIS,

  In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
  for the Eastern District of Virginia.

  C. H. WYNNE, PRINTER, RICHMOND.




CONTENTS.


                                                                 PAGE.

  DEDICATION                                                       vii

  PREFACE                                                           ix

  INTRODUCTION                                                    xiii

  CHAPTER I.
    The Universal Trade                                             25

  CHAPTER II.
    Labor, Skill and Capital                                        33

  CHAPTER III.
    Subject Continued--Exploitation of Skill                        58

  CHAPTER IV.
    International Exploitation                                      75

  CHAPTER V.
    False Philosophy of the Age                                     79

  CHAPTER VI.
    Free Trade, Fashion and Centralization                          86

  CHAPTER VII.
    The World is _Too Little_ Governed                              97

  CHAPTER VIII.
    Liberty and Slavery                                            106

  CHAPTER  IX.
    Paley on Exploitation                                          124

  CHAPTER X.
    Our best Witnesses and Masters in the Art of War               127

  CHAPTER XI.
    Decay of English Liberty, and growth of English Poor Laws      157

  CHAPTER XII.
    The French Laborers and the French Revolution                  176

  CHAPTER XIII.
    The Reformation--The Right of Private Judgment                 194

  CHAPTER XIV.
    The Nomadic Beggars and Pauper Banditti of England             204

  CHAPTER XV.
    "Rural Life of England,"                                       218

  CHAPTER XVI.
    The Distressed Needle-Women and Hood's Song of the Shirt       223

  CHAPTER XVII.
    The Edinburgh Review on Southern Slavery                       236

  CHAPTER XVIII.
    The London Globe on West India Emancipation                    274

  CHAPTER XIX.
    Protection, and Charity, to the Weak                           278

  CHAPTER XX.
    The Family                                                     281

  CHAPTER XXI.
    <DW64> Slavery                                                  294

  CHAPTER XXII.
    The Strength of Weakness                                       300

  CHAPTER XXIII.
    Money                                                          303

  CHAPTER XXIV.
    Gerrit Smith on Land Reform, and William Loyd Garrison
    on No-Government                                               306

  CHAPTER XXV.
    In what Anti-Slavery ends                                      311

  CHAPTER XXVI.
    Christian Morality impracticable in Free Society--but
    the Natural Morality of Slave Society                          316

  CHAPTER XXVII.
    Slavery--Its effects on the Free                               320

  CHAPTER XXVIII.
    Private Property destroys Liberty and Equality                 323

  CHAPTER XXIX.
    The National Era an Excellent Witness                          327

  CHAPTER XXX.
    The Philosophy of the Isms--Shewing why they abound
    at the North, and are unknown at the South                     332

  CHAPTER XXXI.
    Deficiency of Food in Free Society                             335

  CHAPTER XXXII.
    Man has Property in Man                                        341

  CHAPTER XXXIII.
    The "Coup de Grace" to Abolition                               344

  CHAPTER XXXIV.
    National Wealth, Individual Wealth, Luxury and economy         350

  CHAPTER XXXV.
    Government a thing of Force, not of Consent                    353

  CHAPTER XXXVI.
    Warning to the North                                           363

  Chapter XXXVII.
    Addendum                                                       373




DEDICATION.

TO THE HONORABLE HENRY A. WISE.


DEAR SIR:

I dedicate this work to you, because I am acquainted with no one who has
so zealously, laboriously and successfully endeavored to Virginianise
Virginia, by encouraging, through State legislation, her intellectual
and physical growth and development; no one who has seen so clearly the
evils of centralization from without, and worked so earnestly to cure or
avert those evils, by building up centralization within.

Virginia should have her centres of Thought at her Colleges and her
University, centres of Trade and Manufactures at her Seaboard and
Western towns, and centres of Fashion at her Mineral Springs.

I agree with you, too, that State strength and State independence are
the best guarantees of State rights; and that policy the wisest which
most promotes the growth of State strength and independence.

Weakness invites aggression; strength commands respect; hence, the Union
is safest when its separate members are best able to repel injury, or to
live independently.

Your attachment to Virginia has not lessened your love for the Union. In
urging forward to completion such works as the Covington and Ohio Road,
you are trying to add to the wealth, the glory and the strength of our
own State, whilst you would add equally to the wealth, the strength and
perpetuity of the Union.

I cannot commit you to all the doctrines of my book, for you will not
see it until it is published.

  With very great respect,

                                  Your obedient servant,

                                                     