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If you think thats bad try talking about black slavemasters and the blacks who were elected to Congress just after the Civil War.
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That documentary they had on last week said that the slaves only fought for the confederates because they were forced to by their slave masters. And that as soon as Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation they all deserted and many went north to join the union army.
I wish I could go to a big library and search the archives to read the news from that time to see which is the truth of the past.
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Does anybody know if the original article, lists any of the sources/documentation for the subject at hand.
to say the least, I did not get much of an answer.
Not that I care that much, but my girls like to watch Nickelodeon and they have been going NUTS with this crap. Every program is followed by some garbage BHM faux history piece.
They wouldn't dare do a story on a Black Confederate soldier- let alone any Confederate soldier in a sympathetic light.
Slavery in the North was just as prevalent as in the South, before and after the Civil War. The North simply called their slaves "Indentured Servants".... Kinda the same way Howard Dean says all the Democrats need to do is define their immoral platform by using language more suitable for their PC Base
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Talk about a monumentally bad decision - and not knowing where one's interests lie...!!
However, those blacks fighting for slavery (and regardless of what the apologists for the south proclaim, it WAS about slavery... are not dissimilar to those Muslims fighting for Saddam - in spite of the fact he has killed more Muslims than any other living person.
Its not unusual for the stupid and misguided to choose the wrong side in history. And its not unusual for them to be forgotten by history
They say the victors write the history .Certainly it seems the case here. I just think it's too darn bad the wrong side won way back when....
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It is a matter of historical fact that the first black unit of the Civil War was a Confederate unit, the Louisiana Native Guards.
But they weren't even the first black unit in American history - Andrew Jackson had a unit of free blacks with him in 1815 at the Battle of New Orleans.
The black Yankee units were all johnny-come-latelies (pun intended). The PC crowd hates it when these facts are mentioned, though.
The number of black combatants was infinitessimal as a % of all Confed. soldiers. All laborers in uniform were promised their freedom in return for service, which was a risk they willingly took. It is hardly what the article implies---that blacks couldn't wait to fight for good ol' massa.
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Some other interesting people missing: the first black Supreme Court Justice, the first black National Security Adviser, the first Black Secretary of State, etc.