They addressed them in different tone, treated them in a different manner, from that which they had been accustomed in the past to receive from the white race, and it was natural that a feeling of friendship should grow up between the liberated and those whom they regarded as liberators.
Blaine discusses the shift in treatment and perception between freed African Americans and their Northern liberators.
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