Now do the 3,700+ black slave owners.
Fighting For Freedom...oh wait.
Black democrats? Oh please, who would ever believe that!
In New Orleans blacks fought for both sides - depending on who controlled the city
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.
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.
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.
There was NO SHORTAGE of diversity in the Confederate Army, nor was there a shortage of White soldiers.
Perhaps mention that, merely 388,000/13,000,000 African slaves were transported to North America.
And that the Barbary pirates captured and enslaved approximately 1.25 million Europeans from coastal raids all throughout Europe.
That’s roughly 3 white slaves taken for every black slave.
The South's economy was not "slave based". Slaves were certainly used, but the entire economy was not "based" on it. Most Southerners were White, not Black. The vast majority of Southern Whites did not own any slaves. The labor they employed was their own.
Next he says the Confederate Constitution "mandated" slavery. No it didn't. States that did not allow slavery were free to join the CSA and maintain their bans on slavery if they wished. Similarly there was no provision of the Confederate Constitution that would have prohibited a state that allowed slavery then from banning it in the future.
Sally Hemmings was 1/4 Black, not half.
Nathan Bedford Forest was not "the leader" of the KKK. In fact there is no evidence he was ever even in it. It is known that he publicly denounced it several times.
8,000 to 10,000 is an extremely low estimate of the number of Black Confederates who served in combat units. For example, here is just one eyewitness account from a Union observer of only one part of the Confederate Army at one specific date and he estimates he saw 3,000 armed Black Confederates march past him.
“Wednesday, September 10--At four o'clock this morning the rebel army began to move from our town, Jackson's force taking the advance. The movement continued until eight o'clock P.M., occupying sixteen hours. The most liberal calculations could not give them more than 64,000 men. Over 3,000 negroes must be included in this number. These were clad in all kinds of uniforms, not only in cast-off or captured United States uniforms, but in coats with Southern buttons, State buttons, etc. These were shabby, but not shabbier or seedier than those worn by white men in rebel ranks. Most of the negroes had arms, rifles, muskets, sabres, bowie-knives, dirks, etc. They were supplied, in many instances, with knapsacks, haversacks, canteens, etc., and were manifestly an integral portion of the Southern Confederacy Army. They were seen riding on horses and mules, driving wagons, riding on caissons, in ambulances, with the staff of Generals, and promiscuously mixed up with all the rebel horde. (Report of Lewis H. Steiner, New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1862, pp. 10-11)
Consider all the other Confederate forces engaged in combat across a front that stretched 1,000 miles and consider the duration of the war and it becomes clear that 8-10,000 must be an implausibly low estimate of the number of armed Black Confederates who were "manifestly a part of the Confederate Army".
I stopped watching at this point given all the inaccuracies in the first 19 minutes.
BKMK
This subject surfaces ever so often on this site. The issue is always blacks serving in the Confederate Army as soldiers. What is seldom mentioned is that black free men could enlist and serve in the Confederate Navy,and did. According to Confederate Navy regulations, up to 5% of a ship’s crew could be black. If the ship needed more sailors, the Captain could request a waiver from the area commander and ship additional black sailors.