[I Luv Bush]

I don't have many quotes in front of me, but I do know that Jefferson Davis said that "The slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus be made unfit for slavery", and then he attempted to do it by instituting slave laws, courts and juries run by the slaves which he used to teach them what their duties and responsibilities as free citizens would be about. I find it interesting that Davis' slave legal system allowed him to pardon a convicted party, but not to increase the punishment meted out by the slave jury.

[Non-Sequitur]

In March 1861 Jefferson Davis also said this:

"We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Laws, in nature, tell us to recognize him - as our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude. Freedom only injures the slave. The innate stamp of inferiority is beyond the reach of change. You cannot transform the negro into anything one-tenth as useful or as good as what slavery enables him to be."

I would suggest that allowing 'courts' among his slaves is a far cry from believing that a black man should sit in judgement over a white. Davis may have believed that slavery would end someday, Robert E. Lee claimed to believe that as well, but neither man took any steps to hasten the end of slavery, nor did either man every say anything that would indicate that either thought that the black man was in any way the equal of a white.