Hinton Rowan Helper
Hinton Rowan Helper, from North Carolina, was a writer, abolitionist, and white supremacist. In 1857, he published a book that he dedicated to the "non-slaveholding whites" of the South. Titled The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It and written partly in North Carolina but published when the author was in the Northern United States, it argued that slavery hurt the economic prospects of non-slaveholders and was an impediment to the growth of the entire region of the South. Anger over his book due to the belief he was acting as an agent of the North attempting to split Southerners along class lines led to Southern denunciations of "Helperism."
The land of gold; reality versus fiction
"The Land of Gold: Reality versus Fiction" by Hinton Rowan Helper is a critical examination of California written in the mid-19th century. The work se...
By Hinton Rowan Helper
The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It
"The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It" by Hinton Rowan Helper is a socio-political treatise written in the mid-19th century. The book add...
By Hinton Rowan Helper