If the south was racist, how do you explain black confederate soldiers?
>>17966134pretty much literal last minute conscripts that never saw service since by the time they conscripted them the South soon surrendered
>racistMarxist commie word.Everyone was 'racist' except the retarded abolitionists who saw blacks as angelic child like beings
>>17966134Why wouldn't slave owners have blacks fight for them? They were already having blacks pick their damn cotton. What a dumb question lmao
>>17966138There's evidence to the contrary.
>>17966146That photo shows mixed race Creoles who formed a militia in 1861 and the Confederate authorities were like “um, thanks but no thanks”. After the fall of New Orleans, many of them enlisted in the Union army and took part in the first major battle using black troops, at Port Hudson in May 1863. There were black laborers, servants and maybe an occasional soldier in the Confederate ranks but no real numbers. For non whites with any real impact for the CSA, look to the Confederate Indians in the west.
>>17966134They were never placed in combat roles because the Confederates, naturally, feared an immediate rebellion that would've destroyed them. Much unlike the Union that had numerous black soldiers in both low and high positions of power, including radically anti-slavery abolitionists.
>>17966528Even if true, are logistical soldiers still not soldiers? Most of the US military is composed of non-combat soldiers.
>>17966145>Hi there, slave who I own and won't let leave my property since you ARE my property. Won't you please take this loaded and very deadly firearm? Now be sure not to shoot me with it, that'd be real lousy of you!
>>17966607Slavery was much more nuanced than this. Consider the fact that on sugar cane plantations a hundred or more men were given machetes to cut sugar cane. Surely they could have overpowered a slave master armed with a 1700's firearm if they wanted to.
>>17966134Caste anon are you in here? Rationalize to me how America was a caste system when they are using the “untouchables” to fight their own brethren then give them rights and land afterwards
>>17966519the fall of New Orleans was southern blunder
>>17966134that photo was a "tough guy" flex poseit was a white guy showing off his property just like negroes take pictures of themselves with guns, gold chains and money
They were able to fight with the consent of their slavers. Besides, the 1865 enlist acts were a last resort, they didn't actually plan on making negers fight earlier in the war.
>>17966138none of them even served as soldiers. even when the rebels started conscripting slaves, it was for strictly non combat roles like cooks or porters
>>17967452>the fall of New Orleans was southern blunderThe South lost their biggest city in a nearly bloodless stroke. They couldn’t finish a couple of giga ironclads that could have blown Farragut’s ships out of the water, most of the garrison went off to the Shiloh campaign, and they though the river forts would be enough.
>>17966145TPBPGot his ass
>>17966134Same reason colonial powers had Africans fighting for them
https://emergingcivilwar.com/2022/07/08/blackest-man-in-new-orleans-captain-cailloux-of-the-louisiana-native-guards-part-1/Here’s a good article about the Louisiana Native Guard. They were the first black unit to see major combat, had black line officers unlike other USCT regiments, and reflect the racial caste system of south Louisiana.
