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And lastly, there was a kind of utopian pro-slavery.
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It was best exemplified by
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a writer in Mississippi named Henry Hughes.
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Henry Hughes was one strange duck.
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He lived in New Orleans, he was eccentric as hell.
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He wrote an amazing diary. He was a loner.
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He urged revival of the slave-trade
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in the late 1850s,
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and he developed a theory of
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what he called warranteeism--w-a-r-r-a-n-t-e-e-I-s-m.
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He said slaves were not slaves they were warranties.
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What he meant was they were the charges