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Hinton Rowan Helper

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Hinton Rowan Helper was an American author and journalist, born on December 27, 1829, in North Carolina. He is best known for his influential book 'The Impending Crisis of the South', which was a scathing critique of slavery and its effects on the Southern economy and society. Helper's work had a significant impact on the political landscape leading up to the American Civil War.

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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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Book:Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery

Source: Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery

“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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Book:The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it

Source: The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it

“Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.”

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Book:The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it

Source: The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it

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Born: December 27, 1829
Died: March 8, 1909
Known for: Author
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