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Document #5
DOC #5: Source: George Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South, or the Failure of Free Society, 1854
At the slaveholding South all is peace, quiet, plenty and contentment. We have no mobs, no trades unions, no strikes for
higher wages, no armed resistance to the law, but little jealousy of the rich by the poor. We have but few in our jails, and
fewer in our poor houses. We produce enough of the comforts and necessaries of life for a population three or four
times as numerous as ours. We are wholly exempt from the torrent of pauperism, crime, agrarianism, and infidelity
which Europe is pouring from her jails and alms houses on the already crowded North Our society exhibits no
appearance of precocity, no symptoms of decay. A long course of continuing improvement is in prospect before us
Actual liberty and equality with our white population has been approached much nearer than in the free States.
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