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Dixie*ping

[Bulldawg Fan]

Those of us who are native to Dixie find nothing unusual about this story. Its only the politically correct crowd that will tell us this isnt possible or that Ike was forced to follow his master and friend.

Southern history is a wonderful thing when told honestly. We dont get that very often.

[ProCivitas]

Wasn’t this a Dave Chappelle Show skit, but with the white hoods, etc.?

[MamaB]

I was born in MS but where is that place?

[StoneWall Brigade]

Thanks for the ping SB

[South40]

Black Men say Rebel flag flies for freedom

[Brad from Tennessee]

Where I live the Civil War was once commonly referred to as “The War of Northern Aggression.” Many in the South did not, understandably, see the war in a broad political perspective but only as a deadly force that appeared out of the north and ravaged their lives.

[FreePaul]

...which shows him pictured with a group of other white soldiers,...

By 1937 Mr. Pringle had turned white? Otherwise an interesting story.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

• "was owned by the Pringle family"
• "Ike took on the name of his owners"
• "At an early age he was given to the grandson of the family, Frank Pringle."
• "to serve his owner"

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  Boy, the author sure seems to go out of his way to drive home that Ike Pringle was treated as property. Doesn't use 'master' once, substituting in "owner" instead.

  Interesting fellow. Obviously, he was respected in some way. Especially poignant is that Mississippi gave him a pension only around half a century before it was labeled one of the most racist states in the Union.

[SWEETSUNNYSOUTH]

Really nice story....Thanks for the ping.

[Shooter 2.5]

He was a slave. He did what his masters forced him to do. Frank Pringle didn’t give him his freedom. The Union Army and the Federal government did.

[NavyCanDo]

I ran into this web site whle researching my own family members who wore the uniform of the CSA. Very interesting.

It has been estimated that over 65,000 Southern blacks were in the Confederate ranks. Over 13,000 of these, “saw the elephant” also known as meeting the enemy in combat. These Black Confederates included both slave and free. The Confederate Congress did not approve blacks to be officially enlisted as soldiers (except as musicians), until late in the war. But in the ranks it was a different story. Many Confederate officers did not obey the mandates of politicians, they frequently enlisted blacks with the simple criteria, “Will you fight?” Historian Ervin Jordan, explains that “biracial units” were frequently organized “by local Confederate and State militia Commanders in response to immediate threats in the form of Union raids”. Dr. Leonard Haynes, an African-American professor at Southern University, stated, “When you eliminate the black Confederate soldier, you’ve eliminated the history of the South.”

excerpt
http://www.37thtexas.org/html/BlkHist.html

[JZelle]

I’m more perplexed by his stackable potato chip.

[Dante3]

Interesting.