The Impending Crisis Book Report

Born on December 27th, 1829 in a small farm in eastern Kentucky, in an area swarmed by yeoman farmers. He didn’t have much of a choice going to school every year, when it was winter would be the time Helper would attend school. If it wasn’t winter he’ll be plowing the fields. His father owned and gave the 200-acre farm to Helper and his brother. It wasn’t Helpers interest in sharing the farm. So what Helper did was sell the other half to his brother and quickly bought slaves to help out on the farm. He would always wonder if slavery was right or wrong. But Helper remained ambivalent about it. Not knowing till later that his wife would soon bring 3 slave servants into their home. Helper loved to read books. That was his favorite thing to do. After reading the self-published book, The Impending Crisis, a bookstore clerk from Salisbury, North Carolina, Helper published an out breaking …show more content…
They sold mostly at cost, most of the 75,000 copies were put into circulation. The book became famous, or just plain out horrible, and the focal point of a national brouhaha in the last antebellum Congress. It somehow convinced, that in the backwash of John Brown’s and his continuous murderous raid, that a slave rebellion was being planned, pro-slavery Congressmen waved copies of The Impending Crisis in the faces of their Republican associates demanding that they disclaim the book. Evidence of the hopelessness of the situation is the fact that most of the members of Congress went about being armed. Helper was unable to support the secession; he wasn’t going to serve in a dangerous invading army. In 1861 he managed to wangle a smart appointment to Argentina, where he served as U.S. consul until 1867. Serving in the army could possibly get Helper killed in action, but why go to war when you’re trying to make a statement in the North and