Project Gutenberg 2011-05-08 Public domain in the USA. 300 Helper, Hinton Rowan 1829 1909 Helper, Hinton R. 18018259 The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Impending_Crisis_of_the_South Produced by Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It" by Hinton Rowan Helper is a socio-political treatise written in the mid-19th century. The book addresses the economic inefficiencies and moral failures of slavery, particularly focusing on its detrimental effects on non-slaveholding whites in the Southern states. Helper seeks to incite a sense of urgency among his fellow Southerners to confront and abolish the institution of slavery, which he argues is the root cause of the region's stagnation and dependency on the North. The opening of the work sets the stage for Helper's argument by inviting Southern readers, especially non-slaveholders, to seek justice and rethink their allegiance to slavery. Helper emphasizes that his motivations are rooted not in personal grievances against slaveholders or racial sentiments, but in a desire for economic reform that would elevate the South to a more honorable position globally. He outlines his plan to provide factual comparisons between the productivity of free and slave states, showcasing how the latter has hindered economic growth and innovation. Helper acknowledges the personal risk involved in his candid assertions, but maintains that the pursuit of freedom and liberty requires a resolute stance against the institution of slavery. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 53.1 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Slavery -- United States E300 Text Browsing: History - American Browsing: Politics Category: History - American Category: Sociology Category: Politics 1035113 2025-06-14T16:49:31.948752 text/html 1009782 2021-01-07T18:37:53 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 297176 2021-01-07T18:37:53 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 393108 2025-06-14T16:49:55.924590 application/epub+zip 402360 2025-06-14T16:49:38.692684 application/epub+zip 383919 2025-06-14T16:49:35.759715 application/epub+zip 803060 2025-06-14T16:50:05.803557 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 749868 2025-06-14T16:49:52.641651 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 674219 2022-09-16T13:13:32.765653 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 771067 2025-06-14T16:49:28.463780 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 770911 2021-01-07T18:37:53 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 276439 2021-01-07T18:37:53 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 770902 2021-01-07T18:37:53 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 276418 2021-01-07T18:37:53 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20616 2025-06-14T16:50:06.001569 application/rdf+xml 19195 2025-06-14T16:49:36.466714 image/jpeg 4212 2025-06-14T16:49:36.109684 image/jpeg 380207 2025-06-14T16:49:32.019726 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia