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	George Fitzhugh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Fitzhugh was a social theorist who published radical racial and slavery-based sociological theories in the antebellum era.
		Fitzhugh decried capitalism for spawning a "war of the rich with the poor, and the poor with one another" -- rendering free fls "far outstripped or outwitted in the chase of free competition." Slavery, he contended, ensured that fls would be economically secure and morally civilized.
		George Fitzhugh was born on November 4, 1806 to George Fitzhugh Sr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Fitzhugh (750 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Cannibals All, by George Fitzhugh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		...At the core of Fitzhugh's attack on free society was the assertion that its basic economic arrangement, capitalism, was merely a form of white slavery which enabled the capitalist to extract value from the laborer, the ultimate source of all value...
		...George Fitzhugh accepted this duty with alacrity, played his role with a skill that bordered on genius, and became a leading figure in the debate over slavery...
		...The ideas of George Fitzhugh were452 COMMENTARY certainly as deeply rooted in the life of Northern Virginia as was the liberalism of such enlightened patriarchs as Patrick Henry, Washington, and Jefferson...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V30I5P88-1.htm (1815 words)

	Defense of Slavery: George Fitzhugh
		George Fitzhugh was born in Prince William County, Virginia in 1806.
		Fitzhugh was convinced that because masters had sympathy for their slaves, they could not bring themselves to cheat them of their wages.
		Fitzhugh's attention was also drawn by the Trent Affair, which went on in November and December of 1861.
	cghs.dade.k12.fl.us /slavery/defense_of_slavery/fitzhugh.htm (1180 words)

	George Fitzhugh Biography / Biography of George Fitzhugh Biography
		George Fitzhugh (1806-1881), American polemicist and pioneer sociologist, was a prominent defender of slavery.
		George Fitzhugh was born on Nov. 4, 1806, in Prince William County, Va., of a well-regarded but only moderately well-off family.
		Fitzhugh also talked with other abolitionists and lectured in Boston and New Haven, Conn., on the inadequacies of the free society.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-george-fitzhugh (515 words)

	George Fitzhugh (1804-1881)
		Not only does Fitzhugh defend a system (slavery) whose evil is a modern given, but he believes abolition "will soon be considered a mad infatuation," England will return to slave-holding, and southern thought will lead the western world.
		Fitzhugh's racism which he separates so carefully from his defense of slavery as an institution, is of course egregious.
		Fitzhugh's allusions (for example, to abolitionists by name and to European history) may be obscure.
	college.hmco.com /english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/fitzhugh.html (814 words)

	fitxhugh.htm
		Fitzhugh's dissent usually arose out of his devotion to logic rather than out of sheer love of the perverse, but evidence warrants a suspicion that he took a mischievous delight in his perversity and his ability to shock.
		George Fitzhugh was born in Prince William County, Virginia, on the Northern Neck between the Potomac and the Rappahannock Rivers on November 4, 1806.
		Fitzhugh complained of "the affectation of silent contempt" by the Northern press, and such attention as he got in that quarter was in the main hostile.
	www.ditext.com /woodward/fitzhugh.html (8108 words)

	Heath Anthology of American LiteratureGeorge Fitzhugh - Author Page
		George Fitzhugh lived out, before the Civil War, a decline of the sort that would be more typical of his class and race in the South after the war’s end: the family’s plantation in Virginia had to be sold in the 1820s, and his education came almost entirely by his own means.
		Fitzhugh’s thinking is notable in that it took the characteristic arguments for slavery to their logical extremes.
		Fitzhugh, the most radical of the apologists, managed to eke out a living in various minor government positions—before the war in Washington at the attorney general’s office, during it in the Confederacy in Richmond, and after it in the Freedmen’s Bureau.
	college.hmco.com /english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/early_nineteenth/fitzhugh_ge.html (744 words)

	Generation5Part3
		Charles Washington was the youngest brother of George, born in 1738 at the Hunting Creek farm (Mt. Vernon).
		Fleming now living have the tract of land in King George County known by the name of "The Farm" with all the slaves that was on the said land at my Father's death, and their increase together with the stock and Tools of all kinds, to be equally divided to them and Their heirs andc.
		Fitzhugh gave up Chatham and retired to Ravenwod on the Potomac, was that he said it was too heavy a drain upon him to feed the horses of his guests, having at times fifty in his stables.
	www.geocities.com /taliaferro_family_2002/Generation5Part3.html (9299 words)

	King George School Gets Bomb Scare
		Head of School Karen Fitzhugh said Sunday afternoon the caller claimed to be from the U.S. Postal Service and warned that an "incendiary device" might have been delivered to the school.
		Fitzhugh said state police are investigating and a federal inspector has also been assigned to the case.
		Fitzhugh has said the noise and flickering lights from the turbines would be detrimental to the students and if the wind developer is successful, she will have to close the school.
	www.caledonianrecord.com /pages/top_news/story/7e9d297ef (486 words)

	Moore, French, Fitzhugh, Heiner, Brockenbrough, Bankston, Dearing, Walton, Curtis, Purnell... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fitzhugh gave out a statement to the effect that he would hot be a candidate in the primary, and wrote a letter to the Stafford County Electoral Board announcing such as his intention and instructing them hot to place his name on the ticket.
		Fitzhugh is a Virgihia a native of this section, studied law at both the University of Virginia, and the University of Maryland, from which he graduated, and through his family and personally, has long been affiliated with this section.
		Fitzhugh was first taken seriously ill last fall when he suffered a stroke of paralysis; later he lost his sight from the effects of brights disease.
	www.attymoore.com /familyhistory/subcategory.php?sid=93 (9387 words)

	George Fitzhugh
		Fitzhugh, from Port Royal, Va., was the descendant of an old southern family that had fallen on hard times.
		Fitzhugh insisted that all labor, not merely fl, had to be enslaved and that the world must become all slave or all free.
		Although Marx certainly would not agree with Fitzhugh defense of slavery, both men do share a similar perception of the evils associated with unfettered competition that were showing themselves in especially stark terms in the expanding slums of the new industrial cities.
	www.faculty.fairfield.edu /faculty/hodgson/Courses/city/fitzhugh/george.html (8351 words)

	The Bailey Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		She was married to George IV King Of ENGLAND on 15 Dec 1785 in London, England.
		George FITZHUGH was born in 1463 in Ravensworth, Yorkshire, England.
		Henry FITZHUGH [Baron FitzHugh] was born in 1359 in Ravensworth, Yorkshire, England.
	bailey.aros.net /jsbailey/d82.htm (1460 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The World the Slaveholders Made, by Eugene D. Genovese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		...In short, Fitzhugh favored the conscious molding of the slave South into a model regional autarchy, a goal to be achieved through withdrawal from the world market economy into a tightly governed, self-sufficient plantation society...
		...Genovese insists, however, that Fitzhugh's ideas, far from being merely idiosyncratic, were the ideological terminus of Southern "seigneurialism" and the "logical outcome" of a system of thought appropriate to the enclosed plantation world...
		...This was not true of George Fitzhugh-the subject of the second of the two essays making up this book-whose unrestrained jeremiads against market capitalism, free society, and the "wage slavery" of Northern labor made him somewhat suspect even among fellow slaveholders...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V50I4P89-1.htm (1659 words)

	Race and the Market Process
		Fitzhugh argued, had fundamental flaws: among them were the tendency for the strong to exploit the weak; for the laboring classes to be undisciplined; and for the basic needs of the masses to go unprovided for.
		Fitzhugh explained, had no need for socialism because the Southern states already had slavery — and slavery was socialism without the erroneous idea of an equality among men.
		It is because there are many who are not willing to pay those prices that the George Fitzhughs of the world have wanted, through the power of the state, to segregate the races and oversee their conduct.
	www.fff.org /freedom/1090b.asp (1623 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Imtpremis (sic) I give to my son Henry Fitzhugh and his heirs forever the tract of land whereon I now live containing about eleven or twelve hundred acres be the same more or less also the tract of land on which my said son now lives which I purchased of the representatives of Cole.
		George Fitzhugh his last will and testament in presence of us the subscribers who attested the same at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other......................
		Fitzhugh Dudley Fitzhugh Battaile Fitzhugh At a Court held for Fauquier county on the 29th day of April 1823 This last will and testament of George Fitzhugh decd was proved by the oath of William D. Fitzhugh and Dudley Fitzhugh, and ordered to be recorded.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~sarakath/GeoFitzwill1818.txt (390 words)

	Guide Introduction: Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th
		Harrison to George Harrison Byrd), William Byrd Harrison (of Ampthill, Cumberland County, and Upper Brandon, Prince George County, Virginia, and while a student at Harvard University, and concerning the Southampton Insurrection of 1831), Elizabeth Page (Harrison) Powell (bears letters of Mrs.
		George T. Clarke (administrator of James DeWitt Hankins) and John Henry Hankins in the Circuit Court of Surry County, Virginia.
		The letter concerns the admittance of George Baylor as a partner in a privateering venture with Custis, George Washington, and Lund Washington.
	www.lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/womens_studies/southern_women/swmnd1.asp (13340 words)

	Text 6 Reading, Topic: Expansion, Toolbox: The Triumph of Nationalism - The House Dividing, Toolbox Library, Teacher ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		George Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South; or, The Failure of Free Society, 1854
		Fitzhugh defends slavery on the grounds that it "christianizes, protects, supports and civilizes" those under its sway, whom he characterizes as childlike, improvident, wild, and vulnerable.
		While defending slavery, Fitzhugh argues for the welfare of the soul, for moral and intellectual improvement.
	www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8160 /pds/triumphnationalism/expansion/text6/text6read.htm (276 words)

	George Washington at Chatham
		Fitzhugh's of Chatham." During Washington's visits, he enjoyed the lavish hospitality and entertainment for which Fitzhugh was well noted.
		In 1786, Fitzhugh sent some seeds from the huge crabapple to Washington with the promise that the "fruit of the seedling crab is larger, more juicy and supposed to make a good yellow cyder [sic] and in greater quantity than fruit." Fitzhugh and Washington served on the vestry of Pohick Church together.
		The marriage of Fitzhugh's daughter, Mary Lee Fitzhugh, to George Washington Parke Custis, the adopted grandson of George Washington, reveals the close relationship between the Fitzhugh and Washington families.
	www.nps.gov /frsp/gwchat.htm (290 words)

	FITZHUGH
		The Princess travelled under the charge of Henry, third Baron Fitzhugh, who held an important position at the court of Henry IV; he was made Constable of England at the coronation of Henry V, and seems to have been on terms of intimacy with both these monarchs.
		By some means Fitzhugh's attention was drawn to the monastery of Wadstena, the chronicle of which records his visit to it.
		In consequence of Fitzhugh's visit and offer a priest and two deacons professing the order of St Bridget were elected at Wadstena in 1408, and sent to England.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /FITZHUGH.htm (641 words)

	The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review: Right Anti-Economics: Will Slavery Set You Free?
		George Fitzhugh (1806-1881) is a case in point.
		Fitzhugh is articulating a species of anti-economics that has remained potent to this day.
		Fitzhugh simply took the doctrines of Right anti-economics to an extreme, and taught "Freedom is war: no peace without slavery".
	www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk /blog/archives/000302.php (3102 words)

	King George School Gets Reprieve
		Fitzhugh said a number of people are interested in the property.
		Instead, Fitzhugh, staff members and parents rallied to keep the private school for troubled youths open.
		George Miller, trustee in the bankruptcy case, told Fitzhugh she could have two weeks to come up with an alternative.
	www.caledonianrecord.com /pages/local_news/story/2c7c4262a (461 words)

	Overwharton Parish Register
		Counsel for the complainant, Mary Hathaway was Captain George Brent of Woodstock and Colonel William Fitzhugh of Bedford; counsel for the defendant, William Williams, was Mr.
		Fitzhugh a Burgess for George Brent to get him a Commission to Peace and that he was for his own self-interest.” Parson Waugh never lost an opportunity to voice his disapproval of Colonel William Fitzhugh, a Tory, and Colonel George Brent, a Roman Catholic.
		Fitzhugh seems, however, to have held the county standard as twice in Feburary 1692 and again in November 1693 the court ordered that it be removed from Fitzhugh’s house to that of Captain Peale at Marlborough where the court had been appointed to be held.
	www.rootsweb.com /~vastaffo/overwhartonparishregister176.htm (4665 words)

	Text 5 Reading, Topic: Religion, Toolbox: The Triumph of Nationalism - The House Dividing, Toolbox Library, Teacher ...
		George Fitzhugh was a southern lawyer and plantation owner (of minimal success in both endeavors) whose contempt for the North and its emerging capitalist society resulted in this volume.
		In these two selections Fitzhugh addresses the place of religion in the "socialism" of the South.
		To Fitzhugh, the American republic courted disaster by failing to adopt a state religion.
	www.nhc.rtp.nc.us /pds/triumphnationalism/religion/text5/text5read.htm (447 words)

	A Tale of Two Libraries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At the first meeting on March 19, 1908, St. George Fitzhugh was elected chairman and S. Quinn was elected secretary.
		George Wroten, architect and contractor, be accepted at the cost of $5,000 and this recommendation was sent to Council.
		Fitzhugh, notified the trustees that the presidents of the universities and colleges had replied to the letter and had appointed a book purchase committee consisting of Chairman, John S. Patton, Librarian of the University of Virginia; R. Blackwell of Randolph-Macon College; Dr. H.
	www.answerpoint.org /columns2.asp?column_id=570&column_type=feature (1008 words)

	Ancestors of the Gordon family of Mobile, AL (Direct Lineage)
		Capt. George Conway, son of Capt. Francis Conway, III and Elizabeth Fitzhugh, was born on 27 Sep 1789 in Sedley Lodge, Caroline Co., VA,died on 11 Dec 1829 in Mobile, Mobile Co., AL,at age 40, and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL.
		Elizabeth Fitzhugh, daughter of Maj. John Fitzhugh and Alice "Eliza" Catlett Thornton, was born on 10 Oct 1754 in Belleair, Fairfax Co., VA and died on 21 Feb 1823 at age 68.
		Henry Fitzhugh, son of William Fitzhugh and Alice Lee, was born from 15 Jan 1686 to 1687 and died on 12 Dec 1758 at age 72.
	www.ebcal.com /family/genealogy/gordon_parental_ancestry/a1.htm (12725 words)

	JohnMary
		George's parents were John FAIR and Mary WINTER (see Jacob FAIR Decendants), lived in Alleghany Co. MD (formerly part of Frederick Co.) and had 7 children.
		George married Mary Jane Show, had 11 more children, moved to Illinois for 10 years before settling in what is now McCool Junction, York Co., Nebraska in 1871.
		George lived there until his death at age 94.
	home.cfl.rr.com /bfair/George.htm (809 words)

	Harvard University Press: Cannibals All! Or, Slaves without Masters
		Fitzhugh was provocative because of his stinging attack on free society, laissez-faire economy, and wage slavery, along with their philosophical underpinnings.
		The trouble all started, according to Fitzhugh, with John Locke, "a presumptuous charlatan," and with the heresies of the Enlightenment.
		An intellectual tradition that suffers from uniformity--even if it is virtuous, liberal conformity--could stand a bit of contrast, and George Fitzhugh can supply more of it than any other American thinker.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/FITCAN.html (440 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 115
		She married, firstly, George FitzHugh, 8th Lord FitzHugh before 15 November 1509.
		She was the daughter of George Neville, 11th Lord Abergavenny and Anne Walker.
		He was the son of Sir George Neville, 2nd Lord Abergavenny and Margaret Fenne.
	www.thepeerage.com /p115.htm (698 words)

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