AMBROSE, Douglas

HENRY HUGHES AND PROSLAVERY THOUGHT IN THE OLD SOUTH

Baton Rouge LA: Louisiana State University, (1996). First printing. 8vo, pp. xiv, 226. Appendix, bibliography, index. Near fine in dj. Item #41906

Hughes envisioned a social order he called "warranteeism," in which an authoritarian state took care of the laboring classes, but held tight control of all their social and labor relations. He predicted the collapse of free-labor societies.

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