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To: LS
Fitzhugh was not a "crackpot fringer," but in fact the ESSENCE of slavery.

Incorrect as any honest historian of the subject would tell you. Fitzhugh was on the margin of his own time. In fact, those who paid the most attention to him were northerners who used his rantings to incite alarmist reactions for their own political gains.

But based on your posts it is obvious that this matters not to you, just as Lincoln's embrace of the labor theory of value matters not to you. You seem more interested in historically shaky, radically pro-northern rants designed to incite reaction and little more.

798 posted on 11/18/2002 11:45:09 AM PST by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist
Fitzhugh was not a "crackpot fringer," but in fact the ESSENCE of slavery.

Incorrect as any honest historian of the subject would tell you.

Got any musty old books that would support that?

Walt

808 posted on 11/18/2002 12:02:12 PM PST by WhiskeyPapa
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Leessee, you have yet to cite a single historian. Robert Loewenberg, one of Fitzhugh's few biographers, maintains that he was the ESSENCE of the pro-slavery argument. The only one who really denies it is C. Vann Woodward.
854 posted on 11/18/2002 1:15:20 PM PST by LS
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