He mentioned that 1/3 of Freedmen in New Orleans fought for the South. According to famed historian John Hope Franklin, Freedman in New Orleans were more likely to own slaves than whites.
Technically correct. But a lot of those were freedmen who had bought their own wives and children out of slavery, then never formally freed them. It cost money and a court appearance to do that, and you had to prove that the slave you were freeing would not become a ward of the state.