re: #143 theheat

Freed slaves fighting for the South so whitey could keep slaves. What a terrific idea.
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Yep. Further reading will show you that Cleburne’s memorandum on the subject was suppressed. A lot of southern politicians got very upset, and one was honest enough to state that if blacks could be effective soldiers then their whole basis for the propriety of chattel slavery was wrong; e.g. they were fully human and could as capable as a white man.