On the Abolitionist View of the Black Race

  "I have studied the Negro character. They lack self-reliance. We can make nothing of them. God has made them for the sun and the banana." Cassius Marcellus Clay
  "Every feature of the Negro, however large or however small, whether internal or external, whether physical or mental, or moral, loses in comparison with the white, much in the same ratio or proportion as darkness loses in comparison with light, or as evil loses in comparison with good." Hinton Rowan Helper
  "They will lie in their very prayers to God......and it is doubtful that in one generation or two the effects of centuries of barbarism and slavery are to be extinguished and and for the Negroes to become Teutons of Celts." Frederick Law Olmsted (and he was considered one of the lesser racist of the bunch)
  Nice, huh (these supposedly being the good guys, most of whom had signed on to the colonization idea and wanted freed blacks gone post emancipation)? And it also should be pointed out that these fellas' belonged to the economic school of abolishing slavery and so they really didn't a shit about the morality of the institution or even its religious ramifications. Nope, they just wanted the south to advance past its agrarian economy and the slave system was holding that back, that's it.