Top 5 Quotes by Hinton Rowan Helper

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.

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.

Hinton Rowan Helper

Ignorance, Parent, Slavery

Hinton Rowan Helper (1857). “The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it”, p.406

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

Hinton Rowan Helper

Independent Judiciary, Freedom Of Speech, Slavery

Hinton Rowan Helper (1860). “The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it”, p.436

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.

Hinton Rowan Helper

Southern, Literature, Slavery

George Fitzhugh, Hinton Rowan Helper (1960). “Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery”

I have seen purer liqors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier women courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited.

Hinton Rowan Helper

Gun, Knives, San Francisco