[justshutupandtakeit]

Nice attempt to change the subject and put words into my mouth, but it is fruitless. Hamilton and his friend, John Laurens of South CArolina, proposed to Congress that it recruit Black soldiers in order to keep South Carolina and Georgia from falling to the British. Their proposal, of course, was fought bitterly by the slavers and defeated. Rhode Island was the only state I am aware of which actually recruited Black units and rewarded their members with freedom. Why would you be so silly as to believe I don't know that Blacks fought in the Revolution?

Inspector Steiner's report would have to be read in its entirety in order to know what he really said since misquoting and misrepresentation of such material in SOP for the D.S. side. But, even the part you quote says nothing of any units of Black men fighting. No doubt some of the cooks, valets, boot blacks, orderly, ditch diggers etc. who were dragged along with their masters would have had some degree of arms maybe even a gun or three. And it is a fact that proposals of to arm Blacks in military units to fight for the Slavers was resisted to the very end of the war.

I am sorry but I have been burnt too often accepting statements from the D.S.s wrt anything about the Slavers' Revolt much less Black soldiers fighting for the Slavers'. Most were subsequently shown to be misinformation at best and outright deceptions at worst.

[thatdewd]

Why would you be so silly as to believe I don't know that Blacks fought in the Revolution?

Since you apparently believe that blacks only fought for Rhode Island in the Revolutionary War, I believe it safe to assume you don't know lots of things. Black Americans, slave and free, fought in the Regiments and Militias of many of the colonies. And they refused British bribes of immediate emancipation to do so.

Inspector Steiner's report would have to be read in its entirety in order to know what he really said

Maybe he said what he said. How about Frederick Douglass? Here's what he had to say about black SOLDIERS in the Confederate Army:

"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...Rising above vulgar prejudice, the slaveholding rebel accepts the aid of the black man as readily as that of any other." - Frederick Douglass, 1861.

Even Horace Greeley, yet another REPUBLICAN, mentioned the fact that black soldiers were in the Southern Confederate Army, and not segregated into one-color units either:

"For more than two years, Negroes have been extensively employed in belligerent operations by the Confederacy. They have been embodied and drilled as rebel soldiers and had paraded with white troops at a time when this would not have been tolerated in the armies of the Union."

Maybe Frederick Douglass and Horace Greeley were really secret democrats...at any rate, your continued attempts to deny black Americans of their historical contributions do not help the Republican Party. In fact, they contribute greatly to further the current democrat stereotypes of it.