Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Source list

Sources consulted for the biography of:

George Fitzhugh

Biographical Information
  • Harvey Wish, George Fitzhugh: Propagandist of the Old South (1943), with frontispiece portrait, with Nov. 4, 1806, birth date (p. 6) commonly found in reference works, and with variant death date of July 29, 1881 (p. 340).

  • Nov. 9, 1806, birth date and marriage date in Fitzhugh Family Bible record, 1804–1986, p. 11, Accession 33563, Library of Virginia.

  • Death date of July 30, 1881, on gravestone inscription in Walker County Texas Cemeteries (2000– ), 3:7.

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Fitzhugh correspondence
  • George Frederick Holmes Papers, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C.

  • George Frederick Holmes Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

  • Gerrit Smith Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.

  • Anti-Slavery Collection, Boston Public Library, Boston, Mass.

  • George Fitzhugh to William Lloyd Garrison, Sept. 29, 1856, "The Challenge Accepted," Liberator 26 (Oct. 10 1856): 163, second quotation.

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Selected Publications
  • Slavery Justified; by a Southerner (1850).

  • What Shall Be Done With the Free Negroes (1851).

  • Sociology for the South, or the Failure of Free Society (1854), first quotation on 293.

  • "Southern Thought— Its New and Important Manifestations," De Bow's Review 23 (1857): 337–349, third quotation on 347.

  • Cannibals All! Or, Slaves Without Masters (1857), fourth quotation on 294.

  • "The Revolutions of 1776 and 1861 Contrasted," Southern Literary Messenger 37 (1863): 718–726.

  • "Freedmen and Free Men," De Bow's Review 1, new ser. (1866): 416–420.

  • "Land Monopoly," Lippincott's Magazine 4 (1869): 286–291, fifth quotation on 290.

  • "The Freedman and His Future," Lippincott's Magazine 4 (1869): 436–439.

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Secondary Sources
  • Eugene D. Genovese, The World the Slaveholders Made: Two Essays in Interpretation (1969), 118–244.

  • Jonathan M. Wiener, "Coming to Terms with Capitalism: The Postwar Thought of George Fitzhugh," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 87 (1979): 438–447.

  • Andrew W. Foshee, "George Fitzhugh: Proponent of an Agrarian South," Southern Studies 23 (1984): 155–166.

  • William W. Freehling, The Road to Disunion, vol. 2, Secessionists Triumphant, 1854–1861 (2007), 35–39.