United States History: 1841 to 1877 Essentials by Steven E. Woodworth

Author:Steven E. Woodworth
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780738668727
Publisher: Research & Education Association
Published: 2012-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

4.2 HINTON ROWAN HELPER’S BOOK

The second greatest fear of southern slaveholders was that southern whites who did not own slaves, by far the majority of the southern population, would come to see the continuation of slavery as not being in their best interest. This fear was touched on by a book, The Impending Crisis in the South, by a North Carolinian named Hinton Rowan Helper. In it Helper argued that slavery was economically harmful to the South and that it enriched the large planter at the expense of the yeoman farmer.

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