INTERNAL ORGANIZATION OF SLAVE COMMUNITIES. Key words: 'the (particular) class for whose special behoof it (slavery) exists,' the class who keep slaves, servile régime, the upper classes, the ascendant class, the mean whites (a class at once degraded and dangerous) (white trash, crackers), free peasants, the three classes: the slaves, the slave-holders, the idle and lawless rabble, the Slave Power, the privileged (one) thirtieth part, one party, despotism of the wealthy few, the paramount power in the Union, uncontrolled despotism, a compact oligarchy, organised barabrism, a degraded class, the present ruling class.ĬHAPTER III. “Internal Development of Slave Societies,” pp. “Internal Organization of Slave Societies, ” pp. John Elliott Cairnes, The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs: Being an Attempt to explain the Real Issues involved in the American Conflict. [See a higher resolution image and the illustrated essay on ' James Gillray on War and Taxes during the War against Napoleon'.

The image is James Gillray, 'The British Atlas, or John Bull supporting the Peace Establishment' (1816). John Elliott Cairnes, The Slave Power (1862) In 1866 he became Professor of Political Economy at University College, London, but was forced to resign in 1872 by the progress of the rheumatic disease which left him almost completely paralysed before his death in 1875.The Ruling Class and the State: An Anthology from the OLL Collection However, he employed a deputy to perform his duties in Galway after he himself moved to London in 1865. In 1859 he was also appointed Professor of Political Economy and Jurisprudence at Queen’s College, Galway, a post which he held until 1870. In 1856 he competed in the examination by which the Whately professorship of political economy at Trinity College, Dublin, was then filled, and was appointed for a five-year term. At the height of his career he was probably the best-known political economist in England after John Stuart Mill, whose friend and associate he was from 1859 onwards but his interest in economic questions developed relatively late, after periods spent working in his family’s brewing business and in journalism. Cairnes was born at Castlebellingham, County Louth, Ireland.

The Slave Power by John E. Cairnes