Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters (Annotated)

Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters (1857) is one of the most notorious antebellum defenses of slavery, cast as a sweeping attack on liberal capitalism and "free labor." Written in a polemical, aphoristic, and often satirical style, the book inverts reformist language to argue that Northern wage workers are exploited more cruelly than enslaved people. Its importance lies less in its truth th...