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David S. Reynolds uploaded Hinton Rowan Helper, excerpts from The Impending Crisis of the South to
Abraham Lincoln and His Era – History 75200 6 years, 6 months ago Helper was a North Carolinian whose 1857 book “The Impending Crisis” argued that slavery was inhibiting the economic growth of the South. The book infuriated Southerners and was used as abolitionist propaganda in the North.
