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 Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It
A bold call for economic and moral change ignites when a writer challenges the very foundation of the South's reliance on slavery, risking everything to awaken a region to its self-imposed limitations.
By Hinton Rowan Helper
The land of gold; reality versus fiction
Venture into a world where dreams of instant wealth clash with the harsh truths of a corrupted society, revealing a stark contrast between the promise and the reality of striking it rich.
By Hinton Rowan Helper