"We do not know whether free laborers ever sleep. . . . The free laborer must work or starve. He is more of a slave than the negro, because he works longer and harder for less allowance than the slave, and has no holiday, because the cares of life with him begin when its labors end. He has no liberty, and not a single right."George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters, 1857The excerpt above reflects the common argument in the antebellum South that

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