
Published online:
24 January 2019
Published in print:
08 August 2017
Online ISBN:
9780231544610
Print ISBN:
9780231166522
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The Expansion of Slavery and the Emergence of Capitalism in the United States The Expansion of Slavery and the Emergence of Capitalism in the United States
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The Conservative Critique of Capitalist Exploitation and Immiseration The Conservative Critique of Capitalist Exploitation and Immiseration
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Capitalism, Class Conflict, and the Threat to Social Order Capitalism, Class Conflict, and the Threat to Social Order
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Chapter
1 Emerging Capitalism and Its Conservative Critics: The Pro-Slavery Critique of Capitalism in Antebellum America
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Pages
22–50
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Published:August 2017
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Kolozi, Peter, 'Emerging Capitalism and Its Conservative Critics: The Pro-Slavery Critique of Capitalism in Antebellum America', Conservatives Against Capitalism: From the Industrial Revolution to Globalization (New York, NY , 2017; online edn, Columbia Scholarship Online, 24 Jan. 2019), https://doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231166522.003.0002, accessed 26 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the critique of capitalism offered by George Fitzhugh, John C. Calhoun, and James Henry Hammond. It pays particular attention to their indictment of the wage system as exploitative and immiserating of the working class.
Keywords:
defense of slavery, noblese oblige, George Fitzhugh, John Calhoun, James Henry Hammond, wage slavery
Subject
US Politics
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