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To: central_va
How many slave rebellions were there during the war?

There wasn't much motivation for unarmed slaves to rebel during the war. Achieving freedom was much easier by simply running away to United States army lines, something hundreds of thousands of them did.

463 posted on 03/15/2010 12:06:12 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
something hundreds of thousands of them did.

Can you back up that stat?

Thanks.

464 posted on 03/15/2010 12:08:09 PM PDT by central_va ( http://www.15thvirginia.org)
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