The negroes in negroland; the negroes in America; and negroes generally. Also, the several races of white men, considered as the involuntary and prede - Paperback

by Hinton Rowan Helper (Author)

Hinton Rowan Helper (December 27, 1829 - March 8, 1909) was an American Southern critic of slavery during the 1850s. In 1857, he published a book which he dedicated to the "nonslaveholding whites" of the South. The Impending Crisis of the South, written partly in North Carolina but published when the author was in the North, argued that slavery hurt the economic prospects of non-slaveholders, and was an impediment to the growth of the entire region of the South. Anger over his book due to the belief he was acting as an agent of the North attempting to split Southerners along class lines led to Southern denunciations of 'Helperism