Before you make yourself look silly, stop trying to deny the reality of what slavery was all about. Please spare me the revisionist history that is meant to excuse slavery through a total twisting of history. The overwhelming number of blacks who served for the confederacy did so by force. At the battle of the crater at Petersburg black soldiers trying to surrender were murdered by Confederate soldiers because they couldn't stand the sight of a black man in uniform. During exchanges of prisoners the confederates would not consider black union soldiers as soldiers in one to one exchanges. As late as 1864 when Patrick Cleburne suggested using blacks as soldiers, the response was decidedly negative; so much so that Davis actively attempted to block Cleburne's proposal from seeing the light of day. Now, I ask you, why were those debates being held if there were already so many blacks fighting for the South. You know, if I dig long enough I can find evidence there was no jewish genocide by Hitler, but that has to stand up against all the other evidence. Please don't insult anyone's intelligence by arguing that Blacks served as volunteer confederate soldiers in any number that would be considered more than token. This silly claim that Blacks volunteered in numbers to fight for the south has but one source, a few Southerners intent on re-writing history so as to play down or ignore slavery. For every single bit of primary source material you can find to support your case, I can find thousand of documents that totally refute it. Furthermore, there is simply no logic to the claim 30,000 blacks volunteered to risk their lives to keep themselves in servitude. Hundreds of thousands crossed over Union lines to gain their freedom, how is it you ignore that little fact.
what you posted is PROPAGANDA from the most extreme SOCIALIST/LEFTIST,lunatic, fringe of northeastern academia.
in other words, you've been lied to & made a fool of.
free dixie,sw
I know that 6000 blacks are known to have served in the Confederate Armies from Texas,both on the frontier, and in other capacities. And before you call me a "crackpot", Neo-Confed, or other insulting name, I hold a Masters in American & Texas History.....There are also documented accounts of blacks marching with Lee's Army into Maryland, (armed). The most famous account was written by Fredrick Douglass.....