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To: cowboyway
From the link you posted. It's absolutely incredible that a die-hard neo-confed would actually publish truthful figures - for a rare change.

 

History of African Americans in the Civil War

Frederick Douglass "Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pockets, and there is no power on earth which can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship in the United States." - - Frederick Douglass

"These words spoken by Frederick Douglass moved many African Americans to enlist in the Union Army and fight for their freedom. With President Abraham Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the Civil War became a war to save the union and to abolish slavery.

Approximately 180,000 African Americans comprising 163 units served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and many more African Americans served in the Union Navy. Both free African-Americans and runaway slaves joined the fight."

If the confederate insurrectionists had been able to fully destroy the United States of America, slavery would not only have continued in the South, but would have expanded in all geographical directions.

435 posted on 07/10/2006 2:51:03 PM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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To: M. Espinola
don't you get tired of being laughed AT & made the BUTT of hundreds of jokes???

RIDICULE is all you have to look forward to from most FReepers.

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443 posted on 07/10/2006 9:13:32 PM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: M. Espinola; stand watie
It's absolutely incredible that a die-hard neo-confed would actually publish truthful figures - for a rare change.

If the confederate insurrectionists had been able to fully destroy the United States of America, slavery would not only have continued in the South, but would have expanded in all geographical directions.

Your vitriolic rhetoric is boring and predictable. You care nothing about engaging in meaningful dialog but instead, prefer shrill retorts and hateful name calling.

Yet, you find it puzzling that Southerners continue, to this day, to prefer not to associate with yankees and desire to see them leave the Southland and take their hatefulness and lies with them.

You are entirely and pathetically too dumb to waste time on.

How do you convince an ox that he's not and ox and that he's not yoked to a wagon of revisionism, political correctness and lies?

449 posted on 07/11/2006 6:47:31 AM PDT by cowboyway (My heroes have always been Cowboys)
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