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The Richmond Enquirer found Fitzhugh's pro-slavery sentiments to be sound, declaring that the justification of slavery was not an issue of "mere negro slavery", but that in of itself "slavery is a right, natural and necessary." [39] Fitzhugh maintained that slavery was the best institution to ensure "the rights of man". [30]: 45
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.
The 1,280-acre (5.2 km 2) plantation included an orchard, mill, and a race track where Fitzhugh's horses vied with those of other planters for prize money. Fitzhugh named the mansion after the British parliamentarian William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, who championed many of the opinions held by American colonists before the Revolutionary War. [2]
Accordingly, the Richmond Enquirer published a version over three days in September 1804, [27] and the manuscript survives today in the collection of the Library of Congress (which makes a digitized version available). [28] However, critics noted frequent factual errors, and characterized narrator Mathew as in part responsible for the conflict ...
West Virginia delegate votes and signatures at the Richmond convention, April 17, 1861 Richmond Enquirer, July 11, 1861, regarding Marshall M. Dent, John J. Jackson and George W. Summers When the Richmond convention voted on April 17, 1861, to secede from the United States most of the delegates from the counties which became West Virginia voted ...
A federal court jury cleared Rutherford County Sheriff Mike Fitzhugh and retired Smyrna Police Chief Kevin Arnold of liability for faulty 2018 raids.
William Fitzhugh Gordon was born at "Germanna", a plantation near Fredericksburg, Virginia to Elizabeth Gordon and her husband (and cousin) James Gordon, Jr. (1759-1799). ). His grandfather John Gordon had emigrated to the Virginia colony in 1738 from County Down in northern Ireland, as did his elder brother James Gordon (1711-1768), and they both became successful tobacco merchants and ...
Fitzhugh Lee was a Confederate general during the American Civil War and the governor of Virginia from 1886 to 1890 [14] Edward E. Lane (1924–2009), member of the Virginia House of Delegates [ 15 ] Fitzhugh Lee (1835–1905), Confederate cavalry general, Governor of Virginia, diplomat, U.S. Army general in Spanish–American War and the ...