Posted on 09/05/2006 9:19:14 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
There has been alot of discussion on FR about minority status in the War Between the States.
This thread is a collection of links and articles for reference. Please add others if applicable.
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BLACKS
Blacks, Jews Fight on Side of the South
The Washington Times ^ | June 15, 2002 | Thomas C. Mandes
Blacks join Confederate Army heritage group
The Michigan Citizen ^ | 20 Feb 04 | Keisha Stewart
Black Confederate veteran to get proper memorial at Blandford
progress index ^ | 17 sept 2004 | F.M. WIGGINGS
Black service, on both sides, in the Civil War
The State ^ | 19 February 2004 | JACKIE R. BOOKER
Black man supports Confederate flag in march
heraldsun ^ | Oct 31, 2003 | Hunter Lewis
Black Confederates
phxnews ^ | January 8, 2004 | Charles Goodson
Black Confederate soldiers overlooked during Black History Month
Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | 2/27/5 | EDWARD A. BARDILL
Black Confederate-flag supporter irks some on march to Texas
AP ^ | October 27, 2002
Quotations on Black Confederates
Posted on 03/17/2004
Ohatchee marker to have names of black and white Confederate vets
TuscaloosaNews ^ | June 22, 2004 | ap
Natchez(Ms)conference explores Free Blacks in the Antebellum South (Imagine That)
Gulf Live .com ^ | 2/21/2005, 12:00 a.m. CT | By KATHY HANRAHAN
DIXIE'S CENSORED SUBJECT BLACK SLAVEOWNERS
americancivilwar.com ^ | 1997 | Robert M. Grooms
Did free blacks support the Confederacy during the Civil War? Novel on blacks in Confederate South
Coatesville Ledger ^ | January 16, 2003 | Bryan G. Robinson
An opposing view: Descendant of black Confederate soldier speaks at museum
Thomasville Times-Enterprise ^ | 24 Feb 2004 | Mark Lastinger
UDC marks another black Confederate grave
xville chronicle ^ | August 17, 2006 | Clayta Richards
Black Man Was a Rock Hill Leader Before Integration (Belonged to KKK? a redshirt? in 1870s SC)
The Charlotte Observer ^ | Feb. 15, 2004 | LOUISE PETTUS
Confederate culture too
The News & Observer ^ | November 24, 2002 | Jonathan Zimmerman
Confederate Group to Rebury Two Black Federal Soldiers; graves collapsing into ravine
The Clarion-Ledger ^ | 1 Jan 03 | Ernest Herndon
Confederate group, blacks to clean up cemetery
charlotte.com ^ | Jan. 26, 2005 | ap
Confederate group, blacks to clean up cemetery [NC]
Herald-Sun.com ^ | January 26, 2005 | The Associated Press
Digs unearth slave plantations in North
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 03/02/03 | Mike Toner
Former NAACP leader supports Confederate flag
Vol TV ^ | July 4, 2005
Former Slave's Family Sees Him Honored At Last
Tampa Tribune ^ | May 31 2003 | JACKLYN MELTON, JACQUI CLARK, KELLY ICARDI and JENNIFER LeFLEUR
It's no wonder Yankees keep repeating the fight-for-slavery lie
Source: Published in The Orlando Sentinel on April 11, 2000
North wavered on slavery
AJC.com ^ | 3-4-2003 | CAROLE E. SCOTT
Opposing slavery and Yankees in U.S. Civil War
The Toronto Star ^
Rhode Island slaves had critical role in American Revolution
The Providence Journal ^ | 11/18/04 | Steve Peoples
Slaveowners in the North
AJC ^ | 03/02/2003 | Mike Toner
Slavery in the North
Unnamed ^ | 2003 | Douglas Harper
The Other Side Of Slavery; A British Perspective
http://www.referendum.1hwy.com/custom3.html ^ | Unknown
Was Liberia founded by freed U.S. slaves?
Slate ^ | July 3, 2003 | Mary Kay Ricks
White Slavery Was Much More Common Than Believed (As in enslavement of whites, not prostitution)
Newswise ^ | March 8, 2004 | Ohio State University
JEWISH
General Grant's Infamy (Lincoln to Grant: "kicking the Jews out is wrong.")
Jewish Virtual Library ^ | Jewish Virtual Library
A Tribe Apart: Jews of the American South
The Jewish Press ^ | Jason Maoz
Blacks, Jews Fight on Side of the South
The Washington Times ^ | June 15, 2002 | Thomas C. Mandes
HISPANICS
Confederacy lives way down south of Dixie
SeattlePI ^ | October 9, 2003 | MIKE WILLIAMS
Confederados Keep Dixie Alive Down South in Brazil
Reuters/yahoo.com ^ | Carlos A. DeJuana
MISCELLANEOUS
Confederate Connections: The American Revolution and American Life
HK Edgerton Video: I Am the Flag (YouTube) , Dixie Days in Hanover, Virginia, June 10th , 2006
imVHo, the turncoats to their STATES deserved the disrespect from their neighbors that they received during/after TWBTS.
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otoh, there was about 100,000 VOLUNTEERS for dixie LIBERTY, who were "persons of colour". their service records UNdeniably EXIST & are the TRUTH.
we southerners KNOW that you scalawags/DYs HATE that idea, but it is TRUE.
to quote the old saying, "if wishes were horses, beggars would ride."
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