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The Triumph of Nationalism/The House Dividing
Topic: Culture of the Common ManTopic: Cult of DomesticityTopic: ReligionTopic: ExpansionTopic: America in 1850
Topic: Religion
Overview of Triumph of Nationalism
Resource Menu: Religion
Text 1. Bryant/Freneau
Text 2. John Mayfield
Text 3. Alexis de Tocqueville
Text 4. Frederick Douglass
Text 5. George Fitzhugh
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Text 6. Charles Colcock Jones
Text 7. Henry David Thoreau
Text 8. Mormons


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5.  George Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South; or, The Failure of Free Society, 1854
  Ch. 6:  "Scriptural Authority for Slavery"
  Ch. 8:   "Religion"


Sociology for the South; or, The Failure of Free Society, 1854, George Fitzhugh
Link
https://docsouth.unc.edu/fitzhughsoc/fitzhugh.html

Note: On this page, scroll down to page 96 to read Ch. 6, and to page 109 to read Ch. 8.


Online
Source


Documenting the American South
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries


Printing

If you choose to print this text:
-   Copy/paste chapters 6 and 8 into a word-processing
    document, remove extraneous paragraph
    marks and spacing, and print the document.
-   Length: 6 1/4 pages in 12-point text with 1" margins,
    single-spaced.

Supplemental
sites


Brief overview of Fitzhugh, from the site

Overview of Fitzhugh and Sociology, from Fairfield University






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