09-06-2005, 01:20 PM
|
#20 (permalink)
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 4,476
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by cental34
I never said that the KKK was your heritage. The flag was fought under by soldiers whose idea of states rights included the right to enslave a race of human beings that were believed to be inferior and less than human.
|
You are grouping everyone together. That is not why most of the soliders fought. Read the essay again...
The part about the CSA consitution...
Read -
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by C.C.Sinned
Part 2
Over 65,000 Southern blacks were in the Confederate ranks. Nearly 180,000 Black Southerners, from Virginia alone, provided logistical support for the Confederate military. Black Southerners, slave and free, were servants, clerks, hospital orderlies, wagon drivers, and engineer labor forces, but were also chaplains, scouts, foragers, combat soldiers, and feared sharpshooters. They served willingly and they died in Union P.O.W. camps rather than take the Union oath of loyalty. There were more than 10,000 Native American soldiers. There were more than 5000 Hispanic Confederates. Nearly 3,500 Jewish Confederates. Foreigners from many countries served as officers and enlisted men.
Confederate General Robert E. Lee called slavery "a moral and political evil." Yet he concluded that black slaves were immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially and physically. Some free African Americans petitioned to be allowed to become slaves; this is because they were unable to support themselves. Lincoln held many racist views and he did not start the war in order to free the slaves.
|
__________________
|
|
|