# Ep. 78: Hinton Help Us! **URL:** **By** Anthony Comegna **Published:** October 30, 2018 --- Hinton Helper is the embodiment of everything that was wrong with Republican Party politics from the time of Free Soil and beyond. Prior to 1857, no one had ever heard of Hinton Helper. To be clear, Helper was not a libertarian, he was a vehement racist who made it quite clear that he did not believe that people of color belonged in North America at all. Helper had one great contribution to history and that was his book _The Impending Crisis of the South._ However, if you read his work closely, his racist remarks were class-oriented to appeal to poor whites. He urged them to revolutionize society. Helper detested the rich white planter elite which was the result of excessive slavery. Who was Hinton Helper? Was his book, _The Impending Crisis of the South_, more influential than _Uncle Tom's Cabin_? Was Helper an abolitionist? Did Helper see slavery as having any value? What was Helper's version of manifest destiny? ## Further Reading: Helper, [The Impending Crisis of the South](https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/helper/helper.html) George Frederickson, "Chapter 2: Antislavery Racist—Hinton Rowan Helper," in The Arrogance of Race: Historical Perspective on Slavery, Racism, and Social Inequality, Wesleyan University Press. 1988. Brooks, Corey M. Liberty Power: Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2016. ## Related Content: [Cannibals All!, with Phil Magness](https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/liberty-chronicles/ep-77-cannibals-all-with-phil-magness), Liberty Chronicles Podcast [There's No Excuse for Slavery (Updated)](https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/liberty-chronicles/ep-72-theres-no-excuse-for-slavery-updated), Liberty Chronicles Podcast