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Black Confederate soldiers overlooked during Black History Month
Knoxville News Sentinel ^
| 2/27/5
| EDWARD A. BARDILL
Posted on 02/26/2005 9:53:22 PM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL
another fact not taught is that there were many free blacks in the antebellum south and some of those free blacks were slave owners.
Slavery was being legally banned throughout the western hemisphere in the mid 1800's. I often wonder if black white relations would be better now if emancipation came about by legal means as in Cuba, Brazil etc than by war.
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posted on
02/27/2005 6:40:30 AM PST
by
avitot
To: DixieOklahoma; kalee; dljordan; Da Bilge Troll; nolu chan; sionnsar; Free Trapper; dcwusmc; ...
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posted on
02/27/2005 4:47:16 PM PST
by
stainlessbanner
(Let's all pray for HenryLee II)
To: Smokin' Joe
Hyperbole sold especially wellStill does, and it is free!
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posted on
02/27/2005 4:52:23 PM PST
by
Cold Heat
(FR is still a good place to get the news and slap around an idiot from time to time.)
Comment #24 Removed by Moderator
To: Non-Sequitur; Ditto; x
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posted on
02/27/2005 5:03:49 PM PST
by
mac_truck
(Aide toi et dieu l’aidera)
To: GloriaJane
Uncle Pompey, a cook with Confederates at the early battle of Seven Pines, in violation of orders, was advancing to the fighting front, when asked by another black: "Whar's you gwine, Uncle Pomp? You isn't gwine up dar to have all de har scorched off yer head is you?" Uncle Pompey still persisted in advancing and shouldering a rifle, soon overtook his regiment. 'De Lor' hab mercy on us all, boys, here dey comes agin! Dar it is,' he exclaimed, as the Yankees fired an overshot, 'just as I taught! can't shoot worth a bad five-cent piece. Now's de time, boys!' and as the Alabamians returned a withering volley and closed up with the enemy, charging them furiously. Uncle Pompey forgot all about his church, his ministry, and sanctity, and while firing and dodging, as best he could, was heard to shout out: "Pitch in, White folksUncle Pomp's behind yer. Send all de Yankees to de 'ternal flames, whar dere's weeping and gnashing ofsail in Alabama; stick 'em wid de bayonet, and send all de blue ornary cusses to de state of eternal fire and brimstone! Push 'em hard, boys!push 'em hard; and when dey's gone, may de Lor' hab marcy on de last one on 'em, and send dem to h-ll farder nor a pigin kin fly in a month! Stick de dd sons of! don't spare none on'em, for de good Lor' never made such as dem, no how you kin fix it: for it am said in de two-eyed chapter of de one-eyed John, somewhat in Collusions, datHurray, boys, dat's you, surenow you've got 'em goss! Show 'em a taste of ole Alabamy,' etc.
H.C. Blackerby, Blacks in Blue and Gray: Afro-American Service in the Civil War, Tuscaloosa, AL: Portals Press (1979), pp.11-12.
I'd say Uncle Pomp was mighty proud to serve his country.
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posted on
02/27/2005 6:52:31 PM PST
by
4CJ
(Laissez les bon FReeps rouler - "Accurately quoting Lincoln is a bannable offense.")
To: mac_truck
Preserve the Union ping!Preserve the Union ping list? I thought it was the:
"My leftist professors have brainwashed me into a hopeless politically correct position on the Civil War because we are weak-minded ping list.
The people of the south almost single-handedly gave us George Bush while keeping a traitor like John Kerry the hell out of the White House. Look at the Bush map and see who your friends are!!!
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posted on
02/27/2005 8:06:59 PM PST
by
CurlyBill
(The difference between Madeline Albright and Helen Thomas is a mere 15 years.)
To: GloriaJane
"...said that the slaves only fought for the confederates because they were forced to by their slave masters"
.... Free blacks fought for the confederacy because their slave masters made them? Geeze they aren't even trying to hide the bias anymore. Will reconstruction never end?
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posted on
02/27/2005 8:10:41 PM PST
by
DixieOklahoma
(Since 2004: real American voters = 1, dead democrats = 0)
Comment #29 Removed by Moderator
To: LS
why did maryland and delaware both allow slavery during the civil war, but were union states? Why didn't lincoln put an end to their slavers?
Don't let the facts trip you up yankee scum.
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posted on
02/27/2005 8:14:53 PM PST
by
DixieOklahoma
(Since 2004: real American voters = 1, dead democrats = 0)
To: Heisenberg
here's one for you yankee.
Why did the union states of maryland and delaware allow slavery within their own borders during the civil war if they were fighting to abolish it?
I am so glad that this country is run by southerners and good westerners rather than the liberal, mind numbing northeast liberal yankee scum that seeks to infest the very heart of America with its all of its' ill concieved, self destructive, revisionist filth.
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posted on
02/27/2005 8:18:09 PM PST
by
DixieOklahoma
(Since 2004: real American voters = 1, dead democrats = 0)
To: mac_truck
Preserve the Union ping!
Don't you mean desecrate everything sacred, hurl vomit all over the south, apply theivery and steal everything in site, rape every woman, send every child and soldier to freeze to death in northern death camps, burn anything of use to the ground, and once the outnumbered army, with no shoes, resorts to throwing rocks for lack of shot is brought to their knees. Remain in their land for 10 years of raping and pilliaging of the people who remain and their land only to later call it reconstruction. Ping?
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posted on
02/27/2005 8:26:21 PM PST
by
DixieOklahoma
(Since 2004: real American voters = 1, dead democrats = 0)
To: DixieOklahoma
I was talking about what they showed in a documentary I watched called Slavery And The Making Of America.
You can see info about the documentary and it's sources here: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/
By the way, I like your tag line. Dixie is my oldest daughters name.
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posted on
02/27/2005 8:36:18 PM PST
by
GloriaJane
("How Many Babies Are Crying In Heaven Tonight" http://music.download.com/gloriajane)
To: 4ConservativeJustices
All I know is I was talking about what they showed in a documentary I watched called Slavery And The Making Of America.
You can see info about the documentary and it's sources here: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/
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posted on
02/27/2005 8:37:08 PM PST
by
GloriaJane
("How Many Babies Are Crying In Heaven Tonight" http://music.download.com/gloriajane)
To: don-o
My family were at a reenactment at the Atlanta History Center and witnessed the curator argue with and turn away a black Confederate reenactor. The reenactor told them his ancestor had fought for the South and they basically told him he was CRAZY! We had dinner with him at Johnny Rockets later and he had a wealth of info to share with our children and us about a subject we knew nothing about...Black Confederate Soldiers.
Atlanta History Center=PC History ONLY
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posted on
02/27/2005 8:44:44 PM PST
by
kalee
(Kalee's Tinfoil Bonnets, purveyor of stylish tinfoil millinery since 2000.)
Comment #36 Removed by Moderator
To: CurlyBill
Look at the Bush map and see who your friends are!!! I have. Why do you think I want to preserve the Union???
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posted on
02/27/2005 9:59:34 PM PST
by
mac_truck
(Aide toi et dieu l’aidera)
To: injin
They say the victors write the history .Certainly it seems the case here. And they also say that the losers write the myths. Looking at some of these posts it's plain that that is equally true.
To: MJY1288
The North simply called their slaves "Indentured Servants" So there were more than 4 million indentured servants in the North? I'd love to see the support that you have for that claim.
To: Non-Sequitur
I didn't "claim" there was "more than 4 million servants in the North"
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posted on
02/28/2005 5:05:24 AM PST
by
MJY1288
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