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In this biography of the proslavery ideologue Henry Hughes (1829-1862), Douglas Ambrose offers a compelling examination of the life and writings of an intriguing antebellum thinker. Hughes occupied a distinct position among southern advocates of slavery in that his defense of the practice was only one piece of his larger vision for a new social order he called "warranteeism.". Influenced by the new field of sociology, Hughes set down in the Treatise his concept of warranteeism, which prescribed a powerful, authoritarian state that guaranteed the subsistence of the laboring classes through tight control of all social and labor relations. According to Hughes, warranteeism embodied the logical development of slavery in the modern world, the highest stage of socially responsible labor relations. Laborers would no longer be slaves, the personal property of individual masters, but "warrantees." Slaveholders would become "warrantors," charged by the state with providing for the laborers assigned to work in their households. This highly regulated, "progressive" society would eliminate want and, consequently, chaos, crime, and eventually even disease. Hughes sharply contrasted the security

Author

Ambrose, Douglas, 1957-

Publisher

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1996.

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807120804

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Biography