Hinton Rowan Helper and George Fitzhugh both had strong feelings regarding slavery and Northern and southern society. George Fizhugh believed that the north’s definition of equality of rights, and liberty was somewhat altered. George Fitzhugh believed that the north “enslaved” more people than the south in the sense that people that had money and land were the “new masters” of the poor, and were crueler than any southern slave owner.
Fitzhugh, furthermore stated that the slaves in the south experienced numerous more rewards than any free white