Without slavery, there wouldn't have been an American Civil War.
It is telling that, even at the bitter end, when the South was losing, the slaveowners were still ferociously opposing arming the slaves to fight for the South.
Probably for good reason. Arm the slaves to fight FOR the South, and the slaves might very well turn those arms on the South. That would have been the sensible thing to do, if you were in a slave regiment given arms. The slave owed the Southerner NOTHING, and having a regiment of slaves on a battlefield suddenly doing a right face and firing directly into the flank of another Confederate unit, would have been precisely the sort of treachery that Southern slaveowners could reasonably foresee, and fear.
Arm slaves, and you have an army of armed slaves. What makes anyone think that an army of armed slaves is going to obey some white officer with a sword telling them to fight the Yankees whom the slaves know will liberate them?
Bullet in the back, or the face, of the white officer, and you are a regiment of free, armed black men, equally capable of shooting down white Confederates as they are of shooting you down.
There's a good military reason why Southern slaveowners rejected the idea...in addition, of course, to their racism and refusal to even consider putting blacks on an equal footing with themselves.
"There's a good military reason why Southern slaveowners rejected the idea...in addition, of course, to their racism and refusal to even consider putting blacks on an equal footing with themselves."
Commically implying that northerners were without racism and did place blacks on equal footing. LOL!!!!!!!
Quite so. If you arm slaves, with the promise of freedom, then why fight the war at all? It would have made a mockery of "The Cause."
Without slavery, there wouldn't have been an American Civil War.
You're right, There would have been a War Between the States,Since 60% of the exports came from the South,thus taxes,most of the agriculture,and DC was screwing the South out of the Revenue,there would have still been War.Taxation Without Representation comes to mind.