Having the stamp of science, the thought of these polemics was accepted in all seats of learning. These rewriters of history fearlessly contended that slavery was a benevolent institution: the masters loved their slaves and treated them humanely; the abolitionists meddled with the institution which the masters would have eventually modified: the Civil War brought about by "fanatics" like William Lloyd Garrison and John Brown was unnecessary; ..." Dr. Carter G. Woodson
