I have a book on Black Confederates I bought at the Black Slave History bookstore at Oak Alley Plantation in Louisiana two weeks ago.
I also bought a book of slave journals written in the 1920s in their own words
A book on the free mulattos of New Orleans and their role in the Civil War on both sides
and others...
most folks are so ignorant on this stuff and just spout off what they think is supposed to be the “politically correct answer”
a disservice to all of us but more so to the memories of folks who actually lived it
Indeed..the black confederates are dismissed as non black aka creole....and most people dont know what the hell creole even means...
Ignorance knows no bounds.
Oak Alley Plantation is, to me, the most beautiful Plantation House and grounds in the Country.
Your bringing up the free mulattos in New Orleans calls to mind the three years I spent living in that wild tumultouus city in the Seventies.
Never in my life have I met,as a group,a more anti-black and bigoted group of folks who believed their light skin entitled them to think they were all that and a bag of chips.It was a wake up call for me coming from California.They constantly disparaged dark skinned blacks in terms you might have expected from the KKK.
Titles & authors?