today i don't have time to refute each & every one of your points, BUT do some research on what i have written about "collaboration with the enemy" on other threads.
i have posted the documentation to back up my claims (including MANY letters from high-ranking US officers offering PERMANENT protection for slavers/slavery, who DID collaborate with the invader.), much of which is in publicly available venues.
btw, IF the WBTS had been to preserve slavery, why would have 100,000+ FREE black men fought for the south??? (one hopes you aren't one of those here, who say that, "they were too stupid to know what the war was about.")
could it be that we southrons were/are CORRECT & that the damnyankees here are still LIARS, fools & HATERS?
btw, as to my PEASANT REVOLT theory, over 90% of dixie's hero-martyrs in tattered gray had GROSS ASSETS of less than $ 25.00;the average southron servicemember had NET personal assets of less than $ 10.00 in 1861! (just one of the several reasons that we didn't WIN was a lack of $$$$ and EVERYTHING else, except VALOR.)
free dixie,sw
Do you think heaping one lie on top of another will build a stairway to the truth? It won't. Many masters took their valets with them to the war and many blacks were hired to work for the army but there were very few who FOUGHT for the Cornfederacy. It is an complete falsehood that 100,000 free blacks or ANY blacks fought for the South. There may have been a few but about 1% of your claim.
Peasant revolt led by the aristocracy? Oh, yeah riiiight.
In every war the poor make up the majority of those fighting and dying and you think that PROVES something? All the Germans killed in WWII were not Nazis and some were even Jewish to you that proves the Jews fought for the Nazis I presume.
If your "documentation" is such as I suspect it is not worth my time to examine and PROPERLY interprete. Those trying to defend the RAT Revolt have consistently shown a inclination to ignore facts even after they have been repeatedly pointed out.
Because the South was desperate and offered freedom to those slaves who fought for them.
Now, how did the South treat northern blacks they captured fighing against them?