Yes, you are welcome to offer proof.
Frederick Douglass
“It is now pretty well established, that 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. “
Course Jonah Goldberg posse Freepers know better than Douglass who lived it in real time.....their mantra like any neoyankee is “welll Douglass was not a reporter or soldier so how did he know”
Lengthy article from Walter Williams...neoyankees whom I’ve found to be soft on culture war in general don’t like him either but here’s his take
-——http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/articles/00/black_confederates.html.......
I can go on and on with this....my guess it will matter none to you