Nott and Hotze wanted nothing that might give blacks admirable human qualities.[91] Beyond that, they claimed that nation and race were the same, and that to be American was to be white.[92] As such, the American translators argued in their introduction that just as various European nations were torn apart by nationality conflicts caused by different "races" living together, likewise ending slavery and granting American citizenship to blacks would cause the same sort of conflicts, but only on a much vaster scale in the United States.[93]