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To: stand watie
IF the WBTS had been to preserve slavery, why would have 100,000+ FREE black men fought for the south???

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?

388 posted on 11/19/2004 3:17:36 AM PST by fortheDeclaration
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To: fortheDeclaration
WRONG ANSWER!

the free blacks, who fought for dixie liberty, were FREEMEN already in almost every case studied.

MOST were born as FREE MEN!

free dixie,sw

422 posted on 11/19/2004 2:45:57 PM PST by stand watie ( being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)
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