[WhiskeyPapa]

I suppose that legally you would be what the authorities say you are. And after you service your master comes and reclaims you then you're a slave in the eyes of the confederate government.

And per the rebel constitution, no governmental action can ever free you.

Walt

[Grand Old Partisan]

As I've stated many times, the Confederacy was a scam by the slave-owning aristocrats of the South to preserve their control over blacks as well as poor whites -- neo-Confederates are pathetic.