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George Fitzhugh (November 4, 1806 – July 30, 1881) was an American social theorist who published racial and slavery-based social theories in the antebellum era. He argued that the negro was "but a grown up child" [ 2 ] [ 3 ] needing the economic and social protections of slavery.
Hon. George FitzHugh (died 20 November 1505) was Chancellor of Cambridge University and Dean of Lincoln. He was the fourth son of Henry FitzHugh, 5th Baron FitzHugh of Ravensworth and his wife Lady Alice Neville. [1] His mother was sister to Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, known to history as Warwick, the Kingmaker. [1]
George Fitzhugh was a slave owner, a prominent pro-slavery Democrat, and a sociological theorist who took the positive-good argument to its final extreme conclusion. [11]: 135 Fitzhugh argued that slavery was the proper relationship of all labor to capital, that it was generally better for all laborers to be enslaved rather than free.
Fitzhugh is an English Anglo-Norman surname originating in Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire. [2] ... George Fitzhugh (1806–1881), American social theorist;
Returning to Port Gibson, Mississippi, Hughes started practising law. [3]Hughes was one of the first Americans to use the term "sociology" in a book title with his Treatise on Sociology, Theoretical and Practical, the other being George Fitzhugh's Sociology for the South.
George W. P. Custis and his wife Mary Fitzhugh Custis who raised their daughter Mary Anna Randolph Custis at Arlington, left the estate to her. Custis stipulated that whomever owned his beloved Arlington must be named Custis. Therefore, Arlington would go to his daughter and then to his grandson, Custis Lee.
Fitzhugh was a friend and colleague of George Washington, whose family's farm was just down the Rappahannock River from Chatham. Washington's diaries note that he was a frequent guest at Chatham. He and Fitzhugh had served together in the House of Burgesses before the American Revolution and shared a love of
The Fitzhugh family is a First Family of Virginia and prominent family in early U.S. history. Subcategories. ... George Fitzhugh; Henry Fitzhugh (burgess)