8ball57
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As bad as I hate to admit it blacks did fight for the confederate army. Today our children are told to beleave that the civl war was to free the black man of slavery. Not only did some of the blacks fight for the south some of them owned slaves of there own. So the next time you hear a black putting down the rebel flag let them know that some of there ancestors may have died fighting for that flag.
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It is not surprising that some have reacted to the claim that Blacks voluntarily served the army of a government that supported the enslavement of members of their race with ridicule. Skeptics can argue that , although the men in pictures 6 and 7 are armed and in uniform, they are slaves forced to pose for these pictures. However, pictures 1 and 5 cannot be explained on the basis of force, as they were taken long after the War, and c
learly these men did not have
to attend Confederate reunions, and presumably would not have attended reunions if they had been forced to participate in the activities of the Confederate Army. (Observe that the Black men in picture 5 of an 1890 Alabama Confederate reunion are certainly not, say, waiters and bell men at the hotel where it was held, because they are wearing the same badges many of the White men are wearing, and they, like the Whites, are elderly. )
A number of years ago, this writer, who at that time had only heard about Black body servants accompanying their soldier owners to war and the hiring of slaves from their owners to build fortifications, was surprised to come across an article in a newspaper published shortly after Southern states began leaving the Union which reported that some local free Blacks had volunteered to serve as soldiers. Since then several people have done extensive research into the role of Blacks in the Confederate Army and have concluded that some fought for the
Confederacy.
When you co
nsider the following facts about the very different world from ours that they lived in, it is not hard to believe that in 1861 some Blacks might offer to serve in the Confederate Army.
A few Blacks were free, and some them owned slaves.
Slavery was practiced in their ancestral homeland.
In his first inaugural address Abraham Lincoln both said he would not and could not abolish slavery.
Free Blacks had a social status significantly above that of other Blacks, particularly if part White.
Cooperating with those who control the society you live in can pay off.
http://members.tripod.com/~car0lesc0tt/blackconf.htm
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It is not surprising that some have reacted to the claim that Blacks voluntarily served the army of a government that supported the enslavement of members of their race with ridicule. Skeptics can argue that , although the men in pictures 6 and 7 are armed and in uniform, they are slaves forced to pose for these pictures. However, pictures 1 and 5 cannot be explained on the basis of force, as they were taken long after the War, and c
learly these men did not have
to attend Confederate reunions, and presumably would not have attended reunions if they had been forced to participate in the activities of the Confederate Army. (Observe that the Black men in picture 5 of an 1890 Alabama Confederate reunion are certainly not, say, waiters and bell men at the hotel where it was held, because they are wearing the same badges many of the White men are wearing, and they, like the Whites, are elderly. )
A number of years ago, this writer, who at that time had only heard about Black body servants accompanying their soldier owners to war and the hiring of slaves from their owners to build fortifications, was surprised to come across an article in a newspaper published shortly after Southern states began leaving the Union which reported that some local free Blacks had volunteered to serve as soldiers. Since then several people have done extensive research into the role of Blacks in the Confederate Army and have concluded that some fought for the
Confederacy.
When you co
nsider the following facts about the very different world from ours that they lived in, it is not hard to believe that in 1861 some Blacks might offer to serve in the Confederate Army.
A few Blacks were free, and some them owned slaves.
Slavery was practiced in their ancestral homeland.
In his first inaugural address Abraham Lincoln both said he would not and could not abolish slavery.
Free Blacks had a social status significantly above that of other Blacks, particularly if part White.
Cooperating with those who control the society you live in can pay off.
http://members.tripod.com/~car0lesc0tt/blackconf.htm