who wrote the pamphlet about how slavery was bad for the southern economy pre-civil war?

Question

its for a senior thesis and i cant seem to find his name anywhere. even if you could just tell me a place a might be able to find it that'd be great. thanks.

Answer 1

It actually is a book by a middle class Southerner who felt slavery was hindering the economy and pushing down poor whites. The work is "The Impending Crisis of the South" by Hinton Rowan Helper. For its time it made good statistical analysis of how the Northern economy was fair superior to the South's. The condensed book "A Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South" is a good read. I enjoyed reading it in graduate school.

Answer 2

George Washington Duke. He later dropped the George and simply went by Washington Duke. He was a tobacco farmer in NC. He was one of the first to sell pre-rolled tobacco in cigarettes. He and his brothers founded American Tobacco Co. and later, Duke University.

The Duke family did own a couple of slaves at one time, but he built his fortune without the use of slave labor. Duke compared statistics from US censuses to prove that slavery as a labor system was too expensive to survive against free labor competition, and he also argued that free labor was more productive. The paper is proof that slavery would have soon died a natural and peaceful death.

Because he did not depend on slave labor, his company did well after the Civil War when other planters struggled to keep labor on the plantations.

Answer 3

David Duke.