1860 SLAVERY Slave Trade Civil War Impending Crisis of the South

The Impending Crisis of the South and How to Meet It

By Hinton Rowan Helper

Hinton Rowan Helper from December 27, 1829 to March 9, 1909 was an American Southern critic of slavery during the 1850s.

In 1857, he published a book which he dedicated to the non-slaveholding whites of the South. 

The Impending Crisis of the South, written partly in North Carolina but published when the author was in the North, 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.

Book Owners name on the Past down paper, Emory Washburn
Emory Washburn life span from February 14, 1800 to March 18, 1877 was a United States lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, Massachusetts Governor, politician, and historian and faculty of Harvard.

His history of the early years of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is still considered a foundational work on the subject