Our brethren at the South should not be called slaves, but prisoners of war.
Source: Letter to William Lloyd Garrison; in The Liberator, 10 Dec 1852.
-- William C Nell, ( 1816-1874), US historian, abolitionist; He was the author of one of the earliest works of African American history, Services of Colored Americans in the Wars of 1776 and 1812, 1851.