Hinton Rowan Helper Quotes

• Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.

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  Ignorance   Parent   Slavery  

  Hinton Rowan Helper (1857). “The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it”, p.406

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• I have seen purer liqors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier women courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited.

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  Gun   Knives   San Francisco  

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• California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.

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  Knives   California   America  

  Hinton Rowan Helper (1855). “The Land of Gold: Reality Versus Fiction”, p.68

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• Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

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  Independent Judiciary   Freedom Of Speech   Slavery  

  Hinton Rowan Helper (1860). “The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it”, p.436

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• Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.

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  Southern   Literature   Slavery  

  George Fitzhugh, Hinton Rowan Helper (1960). “Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery”

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