Sociology for the South: Or the Failure of Free Society (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Sociology for the South: Or the Failure of Free Society

Known amongst us. But as our book is intended to prove that we are indebted to domestic slavery for our happy exemption from the social afflictions that have originated this philosophy, it became necessary and appropriate that we should employ this new word in our title. The fact that, before the institution Of Free Society, there was no such term, and that it is not in use in slave countries, now, shows pretty clearly that Slave Society, ancient and modern, has ever been in so happy a condition, so exempt from ailments, that no doctors have arisen to treat it of its complaints, or to propose remedies for their cure. The term, there fore, is not only appropriate to the subject and the occasion, but pregnantly suggestive Of facts and argu.

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