[thatdewd]

Why would you be so silly as to believe I don't know that Blacks fought in the Revolution?

Since you apparently believe that blacks only fought for Rhode Island in the Revolutionary War, I believe it safe to assume you don't know lots of things. Black Americans, slave and free, fought in the Regiments and Militias of many of the colonies. And they refused British bribes of immediate emancipation to do so.

Inspector Steiner's report would have to be read in its entirety in order to know what he really said

Maybe he said what he said. How about Frederick Douglass? Here's what he had to say about black SOLDIERS in the Confederate Army:

"There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers, but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may to destroy the Federal Government and build up that of the traitors and rebels. There were such soldiers at Manassas, and they are probably there still...Rising above vulgar prejudice, the slaveholding rebel accepts the aid of the black man as readily as that of any other." - Frederick Douglass, 1861.

Even Horace Greeley, yet another REPUBLICAN, mentioned the fact that black soldiers were in the Southern Confederate Army, and not segregated into one-color units either:

"For more than two years, Negroes have been extensively employed in belligerent operations by the Confederacy. They have been embodied and drilled as rebel soldiers and had paraded with white troops at a time when this would not have been tolerated in the armies of the Union."

Maybe Frederick Douglass and Horace Greeley were really secret democrats...at any rate, your continued attempts to deny black Americans of their historical contributions do not help the Republican Party. In fact, they contribute greatly to further the current democrat stereotypes of it.

[Grand Old Partisan]

Horace Greeley and Frederick Douglass were misinformed. Show me one instance, among the tens of thousands of rebel prisoners in Union camps, of a black rebel POW.

[4CJ]

GopCapitalist and myself, billbears, Stand Watie, Nolu Chan, HenryLeeII, Leesylvanian, StainlessBanner, SheltonMac, thatdewd, Constitution Day, Who is John Galt?, Carry Okie, Shuckmaster and numerous other FReepers too many to remember all their names - conservatives all - have copied pages of state government service records, records from the ex-slaves themselves in the Slave Narratives, documents from the Official Records, period documents and newspapers account, yet the Dims (and I mean that literally) just ignore them. They are not interested in the truth, they must blindly refuse to acknowledge the facts that blacks served inthe armies and navies of the states and CSA.

The dims continue to denigrate their memories, while we honour ALL who served.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Rhode Island was the only state which formed a Black regiment in the Revolution but don't let that statement keep you from using the D.S. distortion method. Each such distortion, when it is clear that what I said was different, just points out that obvious fact that the D.S. arsenal is limited to Lies, distortions and misinformation. Only a devotee of D.S. distortion would equate specifying a actual regiment with meaning "blacks only fought for Rhode Island..."

Why don't we have Greeley and Douglas (if they actually spoke those words at all )argue with the leaders of the Confederate government over the issue of Black troops since they persistently refused such aid even as late as 1864?

If they really did say such things, I imagine they were attempting to push Lincoln into recruiting Black soldiers for the United States and know neither their source of information nor their motivation in making such comments. It is clear that the vast majority of Blacks within the Slavers' armies were not soldiers and that any real soldiers were tiny in numbers compared to the 100,000s who really fought for the United States.