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Timothy Sandefur on Frederick Douglass

Self in Society Podcast

CHAPTER

The History of Socialism in the 17th Century

In 1854, George Fitzhugh argued that slavery is the very best form of socialism. Historian: Pro-slavery thought is really the first form of anti-capitalist thinking in the world. He says historians tend to play down the importance of figures like John C. Calhoun or Governor Hammond of South Carolina who wrote these books.

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