[Non-Sequitur]

". In the meantime the African slaves had augmented in number from about 600,000 at the date of the adoption of the constitutional compact to upward of 4,000,000. In moral and social condition they had been elevated from brutal savages into docile, intelligent, and civilized agricultural laborers, and supplied not only with bodily comforts but with careful religious instruction. Under the supervision of a superior race, their labor had been so directed as not only to allow a gradual and marked amelioration of their own condition, but to convert hundreds of thousands of square miles of the wilderness into cultivated lands covered with a prosperous people; towns and cities had sprung into existence, and had rapidly increased in wealth and population under the social system of the South;..." -- Jefferson Davis

Doesn't sound like he thought much of them.

[deannadurbin]

On the contrary it sounds like he noted the improvement in their living conditions, from savages to civilized. And there’s no statement there that claims they are not human.

[ejonesie22]

Actually it sounds like he thought more of them than many others in the South at that time. Many thought they remained savages at heart and were in capable of embracing or at least participating in more formal culture.

[AuntB]

That description by Davis is no different than those you’ll see from Jefferson or Lincoln about the Indian race. They were all condescending toward less civilized cultures. They were men of their times.