Private property destroys liberty and equality. - George Fitzhugh

No one will contend that negroes, for instance, should roam at large in puris naturalibus, with the apes and tigers of Africa, and ‘worry and devour each other.’ Nor are they fitted for an Athenian democracy. What form of government short of domestic slavery will suit their wants and capacities?

The great object of government is to restrict, control and punish man ‘in the pursuit of happiness.’

Slavery relieves our slaves of these cares altogether, and slavery is a form, and the very best form, of socialism.