As I indicated, I find Joseph Emory Davis the most fascinating biographically incomprehensible personage I have ever studied. I am presenting because I don’t know many who know too much about him. While Jefferson was the very typical pro-slavery secessionist, of course its president, but prior to that one of the most ardent senators defenders not only of slavery, but of the inferior qualities of slaves, who argued profusely that the black slaves had absolutely no qualities that could ever enable them to be anything more than slaves and maybe the author of Ron DeSantis’ delusion of the benefits of slavery, for Jefferson certainly seems to have argued in the halls of Congress when he still a senator that slavery was a benefit to the black slave because his race was so far subservient to the white that God himself created the black man only for the singular purpose of being held in kind bondage by the white man. I am not sure if Jefferson Davis was aware that god had somehow created the black man some hundreds of thousands of years before he became the white man’s slave, he seems to have believed (from some of his pronouncements that they had not existed whatsoever but had been dropped into Africa only days before they were brought here and placed in bondage.