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To: Donald Meaker
I am sure you are right, that the blacks lived in the big house, and the whites lived in the slave cabins often as not.

I doubt that. But you're dismissing the fact that the Confederate Army didn't segregate the blacks and the Union Army did. Why? Because the so called anti-slavery yankees refused to have blacks in their ranks!

I am also sure, since race didn't matter, that blacks owned white slaved.

I don't think any blacks owned white slaves but free blacks did own black slaves.

Are you sure you want to pursue this path? It only exposes the extreme prejudice and racist attitudes of the 'liberators' and their progeny.

612 posted on 07/15/2006 5:00:29 AM PDT by cowboyway (My heroes have always been Cowboys)
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To: cowboyway

Actually, the anti slavery yankees fought right next to the black regiments, notably in the battle of the crater, and many accepted officer positions in those regiments eventhough that was a certain death sentence if captured.

Yes, the Oh so brave confederates murdered the white officers of the black regiments.

When I was at West Point, I was taught that it was the southern officers that "silenced" the first black cadets. Jack Pershing suffered during his career from the bigotry of southern officers because he has served as an officer in the black regiments (say 9th and 10th CAV).

The other reasons why the Confederate blacks were not in separate regiments was the blacks needed a white advocate close by their side. I don't doubt the loyalty of black to white, or white to black in those situations. Humans we all are, no?


621 posted on 07/15/2006 12:57:41 PM PDT by Donald Meaker (Brother, can you Paradigm?)
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To: cowboyway

They didn't segregate the Blacks because there weren't enough to get more than a corporal's patrol.


656 posted on 07/15/2006 8:45:50 PM PDT by Donald Meaker (Boy, that Rondell fellow plays all over the ice, eh?)
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To: cowboyway
But you're dismissing the fact that the Confederate Army didn't segregate the blacks and the Union Army did. Why?

Well that's a silly question. If the confederate army had segregated blacks out of their units then who would do the cooking and the washing and take care of the livestock?

It's interesting to note that when the confederate congress finally got around to allowing blacks to be enlisted and conscripted into combat roles in March of 1865 the few units they managed to raise were segregated into all black outfits. What changed?

695 posted on 07/17/2006 6:46:55 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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