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Liberty Chronicles, Ep. 78: Hinton Help Us!

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Channel: Libertarianism.org · 2018 · News & Politics

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Prior to 1857, no one had ever heard of Hinton Helper. To be clear, Helper was not a libertarian, he was a vehement racist who made it quite clear that he did not believe that people of color belonged in North America at all. Helper had one great contribution to history and that was his book *The Impending Crisis of the South.* However, if you read his work closely, his racist remarks were class-oriented to appeal to poor whites about how they should revolutionize society. Helper detested the rich white planter elite which was the result of excessive slavery.

Who was Hinton Helper? Was his book, *The Impending Crisis of the South*, more influential than *Uncle Tom's Cabin*? Was Helper an abolitionist? Did Helper see slavery as having any value? What was Helper's version of manifest destiny?

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