The following is an excerpt by George Fitzhugh from Cannibals All! published in 1857.
"The Negro slaves of the South are the happiest, and, in some sense, the freest people in the world. The children
and the aged and infirm work not at all, and yet have all the comforts and necessaries of life provided for them.
They enjoy liberty, because they are oppressed neither by care nor labor. The women do little hard work, and are
protected from the despotism of their husband by their masters. The Negro men and stout boys work, on the
average, in good weather, not more than nine hours a day. The balance of their time is spent in perfect abandon.
The free laborer must work or starve. He is more a slave than the Negro because he works longer and harder for
less allowance than the slave, and has no holiday, because the cares of his life with him begin when its labors end"
In this excerpt George Fitzhugh is making an argument for:
a. Northern Industrialists to support slavery
b. Abolitionists to rise up and fight against slavery
c.Slavery as a "positive good" in southern society
d.Suffragists to gain the right to vote