Okay, to revive the thread (I love a Lost Cause).
Jefferson Davis may have shared the racial attitudes of many Americans that black people were nto ready for the responsibilities f self-government, but, unlike others, Jefferson Davis undertook steps to bring them to such responsibilities.
On his plantation, he established a court system in which slave defendants were tried by a jury of slaves. If convicted, slaves themselves determined the punishment. Davis himself sat as judge, but by his own rule, he could set aside or lessen a punishment (if he felt the jury had been unfair to the defendant), but he could not increase the punishment. He stated that his intent was to prepare his charges for the responsibilities of self-government.
In February 1864, Mrs Davis saw a black child being beaten by a black woman and intervened to stop the beating. The child said his name was
Jim Limber. The Davis family adopted Jim (although there was no legal adoption law in Virginia at the time) and Jim stayed with the Davis family until the US Army separated Jim from the Davis' when Jefferson Davis was arrested in Georgia in 1865.
That might restart the thread...