Which Confederate States had laws that allowed slaves to serve in the regiments raised by that state and sent off to serve in the Confederate Army.
“Obviously, slavery was not what the Southern states were fighting over.”
If that was the case, why did the Confederacy wait until Nov 1864 to offer Emancipation as bargaining chip to lure the Brits and French into diplomatically recognizing the Southern Confederacy. Why not 1861 or 1862. The answer, in those years the Confederacy had an expectation of victory.
By Nov 1864 that expectations had evaporated. Emancipation for diplomatic recognition was a “Hail Mary” pass by a dying Confederacy.
Which Confederate States had laws that allowed slaves to serve in the regiments raised by that state and sent off to serve in the Confederate Army.
Tennessee did it. Alabama did it. Others may have officially. And of course Confederate officers in the field frequently did so whether the politicians authorized it or not.
If that was the case, why did the Confederacy wait until Nov 1864 to offer Emancipation as bargaining chip to lure the Brits and French into diplomatically recognizing the Southern Confederacy. Why not 1861 or 1862. The answer, in those years the Confederacy had an expectation of victory.Which Confederate States had laws that allowed slaves to serve in the regiments raised by that state and sent off to serve in the Confederate Army.
If it were what they were fighting over why not simply accept the North's offer of slavery effectively forever by express constitutional amendment?