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"Statistical fanatic, abolitionist, militant racist Hinton Rowan Helper--a statistical fanatic, abolitionist, militant racist, Republican propagandist, ardent patriot, international railway projector, and promoter of inter-American co-operation ­was a man of great paradox and tragedy. Born and reared a Southerner, he became a caustic and potent critic of slavery, who sought to ""liberate"" his people from its burdens. Unlike many of his Northern abolitionist friends, however, he loathed not only the Negro but most ""non-Anglo-Saxon peoples."" It is shocking to read Helper's violent pleas for abolition and to know of his contempt for the Negro."

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For more than a century Hinton Helper remained an enigmatic maverick, a human maladjustment always one step short of reality....Bailey has brought a measure of understanding to Helper with a biography so sound that it is not likely ever to be challenged. - Civil War Times

<p> For more than a century Hinton Helper remained an enigmatic maverick, a human maladjustment always one step short of reality....Bailey has brought a measure of understanding to Helper with a biography so sound that it is not likely ever to be challenged. - Civil War Times

For more than a century Hinton Helper remained an enigmatic maverick, a human maladjustment always one step short of reality .Bailey has brought a measure of understanding to Helper with a biography so sound that it is not likely ever to be challenged. Civil War Times

For more than a century Hinton Helper remained an enigmatic maverick, a human maladjustment always one step short of reality .Bailey has brought a measure of understanding to Helper with a biography so sound that it is not likely ever to be challenged. <i>Civil War Times</i>

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Dr. Hugh C. Bailey was the sixth president of Valdosta State College. Appointed by the board of Regents in 1978, Dr. Bailey served for 23 years (1978-2002). He was born July 2, 1929, in Berry, Alabama.

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