Wrong by a factor of 5 or 10? Remember, You said that there were 100,000 free black confederates. The Census records say there were only 62,000 free black men of all ages in all of the Confederacy, including areas that the Union controlled from the start. Now to get 100,000 free blacks of military age, who would volunteer (your're not claiming that Jeff D was drafting blacks, are you?) the Census would have had to undercount free blacks by at least 5 times --- more likely 10 times.
Or could it be that you just pulled that 100,000 number out of your butt?
did you miss where i posted the source of the 100,000+ number?
Professor Blackerby was NOT a white man, but rather a person of colour, with a PhD from Harvard, as well as being the chairman emertius of the history department at Tuskeegee Univ.
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