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I think that if I had been a black slave in 1864 I would have preferred to fight for the government that had issued the Emancipation Proclamation rather than one that wanted the institution to continue forever. There is a theory that the blacks who did volunteer to fight for the Confederacy, right at the end, intended to turn their guns on the Confederates once they were armed.

There were masters who took their body servants with them into the Confederate army, and I think there were cases of those servants taking part in battles, but they wouldn't have been officially regarded as soldiers.

Another possibility would be persons who had some African ancestry but who were able to "pass" as white--maybe DNA would be the only way to determine that there was some African ancestry.

there are volumes out there about slaves or freed blacks fighting on the CSA side in fairly large numbers

anyone can look it up

no need for anyone to be uninformed about it unless that suits them

i’d educate ya’ll but this ain't the thread

just google “blacks in Confederacy” and weed through all the PC garbage for truths...I actually have several books...one composed by a creole from New Orleans on a company of freed blacks

Bedford Forrest offered freedom to his slaves who fought with him and scores did and he did honour his word

I would address the Lee canard too but I don't wish to hijack an anthropology thread

ya'll can have at it...it's too late for a flame war and it never ends anyhow.....kids are just brainwashed today by the culture...I don't blame them really...folks are gonna believe what they have to or want to believe over race anyhow...truth is secondary

btw...you do know what precisely the Emancipation Proclamation did?...it purported to free only the slaves in territory the Federals did not control but kept those in areas of Union control enslaved till December of 1865 with the 13th amendment ..well after Appomatox....funny thing real history as opposed to perception

Link to proof here from an objective source

the truth will set you free as someone said..lol