Hinton Rowan Helper

Hinton Rowan Helper was an American statistician and critic of slavery in the mid-19th century. He authored "The Impending Crisis of the South," which analyzed economic and social issues in the Southern United States. Helper argued that slavery was economically inefficient and harmful to both the South's development and its common people, emphasizing the negative impact on non-slaveholding whites. His work aimed to challenge pro-slavery arguments by highlighting the economic disadvantages of slavery, making him a notable figure in pre-Civil War debates over slavery and Southern society.