Summary Of George Fitzhugh Cannibals All

George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All! In “George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All!”, George Fitzhugh is attempting to defend slavery. Fitzhugh spoke of how well slaves were treated, but mainly, he focused on how the North was guilty of slavery as much as the South was. He spoke of slavery as a kind alternative to being forced to otherwise work in the “free North”, where capital commands labor. He mocks the “free North”, stating that it is merely a society that is ruled by capitalism. Throughout the document, He gives many examples of how workers in this capitalistic society, or free laborers, are in fact treated much worse than slaves, and have even less rights. He even goes as far as to say that the free laborers are simply slaves without masters, and that