Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South

Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South
Author: Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1860
Genre: Enslaved persons
ISBN:

This book condemns slavery, by appealed to whites' rational self-interest, rather than any altruism towards blacks. Helper claimed that slavery hurt the Southern economy by preventing economic development and industrialization, and that it was the main reason why the South had progressed so much less than the North since the late 18th century.

The Impending Crisis of the South

The Impending Crisis of the South
Author: Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780366138531

Excerpt from The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It Opinions of Franklin - Hamilton - Jay - Adams - Webster -clinton warren-complimentary Allusions to Gari ison, Greeley, Seward, Sumner, and Others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.