[justshutupandtakeit]

Rhode Island was the only state which formed a Black regiment in the Revolution but don't let that statement keep you from using the D.S. distortion method. Each such distortion, when it is clear that what I said was different, just points out that obvious fact that the D.S. arsenal is limited to Lies, distortions and misinformation. Only a devotee of D.S. distortion would equate specifying a actual regiment with meaning "blacks only fought for Rhode Island..."

Why don't we have Greeley and Douglas (if they actually spoke those words at all )argue with the leaders of the Confederate government over the issue of Black troops since they persistently refused such aid even as late as 1864?

If they really did say such things, I imagine they were attempting to push Lincoln into recruiting Black soldiers for the United States and know neither their source of information nor their motivation in making such comments. It is clear that the vast majority of Blacks within the Slavers' armies were not soldiers and that any real soldiers were tiny in numbers compared to the 100,000s who really fought for the United States.

[thatdewd]

Rhode Island was the only state which formed a Black regiment in the Revolution but don't let that statement keep you from using the D.S. distortion method.

LOL, it was you who distorted the issue. The issue was blacks who fought in the Revolution, and you distorted that to be limited to segregated-only units, thus denying the integrated participation that was far more common. You tried to erase the honor and glory of thousands of black Americans just so you could make a point. They fought for the Colonies, they fought for the Original Principles, and they refused British offers of immediate emancipation to do so.

Why don't we have Greeley and Douglas (if they actually spoke those words at all) argue with the leaders of the Confederate government over the issue of Black troops since they persistently refused such aid even as late as 1864?

They did indeed speak those words, it is an undisputed (except by you) and well documented fact of history. The disputes in regards to Confederate legislation to which you refer were over the raising of segregated units at a national level, in lieu of the integrated participation which had previously occurred under individual State Ordinances, such as that of Tennessee (see post 235 ) and individual commander's discretion. Once again you can only conceive of the issue in terms of segregated units. That is very telling. The integrated participation of blacks in the Confederate Army is testified to by Northern Republicans and Union Army veterans. No one is saying it wasn't a racist society, this was America in the 19th century. America, North and South, was racist. Some northern states (such as Lincoln's Illinois) had such strict black laws that it was almost impossible for a black to live there, let alone merely pass through, something that is ignored by propagandists and revisionists.