story on their lips and a warrant in their hand: Slavery must endure and the races must be separated to save their “wives and daughters” from “pollution and violation” on account of “the lust of half-civilized Africans.” Before that war, they had already transfigured slaveholding into the work of God, which sought to save “the African, coming from a barbarous state and from a tropical climate,” and transform these captives into “the happiest set of people on the face of the globe.”
