Hinton Rowan Helper's The Impending Crisis (1857) was __________.

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Hinton Rowan Helper's "The Impending Crisis" was a significant anti-slavery treatise written by a native Southerner, which made it particularly notable and controversial at the time. It criticized slavery not from a moral standpoint but for its economic inefficiency and its negative impact on the Southern economy, arguing that it harmed the majority of Southerners who did not own slaves.

Hinton Rowan Helper's the Impending Crisis (1857) Was __________