Posted on 03/27/2024 3:49:03 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
As many scholars emphasize, particularly in the study of historical subjects like the Civil War, nuances abound, and the narrative is seldom black or white. History's truth often resides in the gray zones, and this holds especially true for the complex society of the Confederate States of America Rather than a simple dichotomy of Blacks and Whites, the antebellum South witnessed a blend of races over two centuries leading up to the Civil War.
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Now do the 3,700+ black slave owners.
Fighting For Freedom...oh wait.
Black democrats? Oh please, who would ever believe that!
And the African tribal leaders who ordered the capture of their enemies in order to sell them to the white slavers.
Mentioned. He gives a very detailed accounting.
Not all slave owners were white.
Interesting. They’re out there. So why don’t they get their own separate room in a museum? 3700 is big enough.
Were the slavers forced at gunpoint to purchase humans?
In New Orleans blacks fought for both sides - depending on who controlled the city
I never said that. I said the tribal leaders sold them to white slavers, not owners.
They tried to enlist into the confederacy but the pro-confederate Governor refused to give them military assignments and the Louisiana legislature passed a law requiring that units be whites-only and the unit was disbanded. When New Orleans was occupied by Union forces, 10% of them went and fought for the United States.
Yale and Brown Universities are named for their benefactors, who made their fortunes in the African slave trade. Their on-campus statues are not being defaced and torn down.
Neither school will be renamed. After all, they’re Ivy League.
That's a rather stupid question. Why would they be forced at gunpoint? Collecting and trading captured Africans from other African tribes was their trade, how they made their money. No white man was going to go marching through the jungles of Africa back then to hunt down blacks on their own. That's why they relied on Africans to capture other Africans. And slaves sold in the slave trade didn't all come from just Africa.
If you add up personal servants, cooks, blacksmiths, other labor, people passing as white, and the odd actual black soldier, you might have as many as 5,000 black confederates, maybe. That is a drop in the bucket compared to the 160,000 plus US Colored Troops and other black regiments raised from free blacks and former slaves.
Of whom many were themselves black.
I remember going to a reenactment of the Battle of Spotsylvania and a discussion with a black lawyer who lived in Virginia and was a member of the Confederate cavalry reenacting regiment. He said he couldn’t loose. If the South won, he would be granted his freedom and if the North won, he would receive his freedom.
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