Their manner towards me was perfect,—not a trace of rudeness nor of timidity either, but absolute confidence at once friendly and respectful.
— from Human Intercourse by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Both governments thus openly recognized, not only the existence of slavery in the United States, but that slaves were merely property .
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer
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