Vulgar words in 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 (Page 1)
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Slaves were not then nor since regarded by their owners as "_persons_" merely "held to service or labor," but they were held as personal chattels, owing no duty to their masters distinguishable from that owing by an ox, a horse, or an ass.
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As I turned to surrender, some confusion arose and a few shots were fired, but Tucker and Captain John D. Semmes, being near me, knocked up the ends of the nearest rifles with their swords and saved my life.