A bigoted racist who hated blacks and avoided entering buildings in which they worked, he published a book condemning slavery in the South. This was banned in many places and people jailed for possession of it. Who was he?

Sofie

Hinton Rowan Helper(December 27, 1829-March 8, 1909) was a Southern critic of slavery during the 1850s. In 1857, he published a book which he dedicated to the "nonslaveholding whites" of the South. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinton_Rowan_Helper Feb 21 07, 6:42 AM

Baloo55th

Well done, Sofie. Helper was against slavery on economic grounds, in which he was correct, but mainly was against it because he didn't want to have the blacks in the same country he lived in. He spent his profits on an attempt to get a railroad the length of the Americas, in order to drive the black and brown peoples out. Couldn't possibly have worked the way he wanted it. After the War between the States, he was unpopular with the Northerners because of his views on blacks, and with the Southerners as he opposed slavery. Apart from which, I get the impression that he wasn't very likable anyway..... Feb 21 07, 10:33 AM