May be, may be not. It is clearly fair to say that the slaves had the right to take up the sword to win their own freedom.
There were no slave revolts during the Civil War. None.
Most manumitted slaves stayed on the old plantations as sharecroppers post-bellum. Loyalty to the beatings and whippings I guess.
“the fact that he would uses the sword to force them upon others”
May be, may be not. It is clearly fair to say that the slaves had the right to take up the sword to win their own freedom.”
I would agree the slaves did indeed have that right, the Sword is only legitimately used against what you might call tyrants or oppressors.
Which is just to say someone else who would uses the sword to impose their will upon you. The slaves would most certainty fall into the category where the sword was a legitimate recourse.
This fact of course left the south living in a state of perpetual military readiness and fear, and made the cost of slavery extraordinary.
So much in fact that the institution was dieing state by State, and would not have made it past the 1940’s(In union), much sooner had the south achieved its independents. This is due to both the greatly diminished ability of the south to put down slave revolts and keep slaves from fleeing to the United States (who would no longer return them).