“Free laborers have not a thousandth part of the rights and liberties of negro slaves. Indeed, they have not a single right or a single liberty, unless it be the right or liberty to die.”

— George Fitzhugh

Source: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), p. 31

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