Black Confederates?

Question

people dont seem to believe that therewere 90,000 to 100,000 black confederates? did theunion really have the moral advantage? i dont

http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/bunker/1163/black.html
http://www.blackconfederates.com/
i dont get why history tries to cover the good things about the south. and jjust say good about the North. its unfair for southerners.
http://www.thelincolnmuseum.org/new/research/controversies.html
lincoln quotes
"But for your race among us there could not be a war, although many men on either side do not care for you one way or another." -Lincoln

Below someone posted a quotation attributed to former slave and black activist Frederick Douglass. It reads: "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...and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government.

Answer 1

There was one instance where black confederate troops were hauling supplies to Petersburg, Virginia and General Custer and the Michigan Volunteer Cavalry attacked them.
Custer thought they would be a pushover, the teamsters grabbed their guns and shot the first assault to pieces. Custer went back got another bunch of Cavalry troops and charged again and massacred the teamsters.

Answer 2

Because the simple fact is that the Civil War was never about slavery. It was about the enforcement of an unconstitutional authority over what should have been state issues. The states that seceded from the union were well within their rights,the Constitution is meant to bind the country together to a point,but it's not a suicide pact,which Lincoln seemed to believe. If the states deem that their association with the Federal government is no longer in their best interests,then they are completely within their rights to leave as long as their own people support that decision.

Abolishing slavery was nothing more than a political move to make the Souths position more difficult,nothing more. After all do people really believe that tens of thousands of northerners were charging to their deaths under the battle cry of "Free The Slaves" No!! To most northerners it wasn't even an issue,slavery as an institution was more or less in its last days anyway.

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Answer 3

What are you trying to say?

the war was definitely about economic independence from the north... essentially state issues... but i mean the emancipation proclamation was only issued because the North wanted the UK to stop trading with the South. So declaring the act of making slaves free, was just part of the strategy to win the war over the South

Answer 4

The war was about states rights and even though I am glad that the North won and slavery was abolished, I am sad that with the North winning we lost states rights.

Answer 5

There were also black slave owners. It wasn't about slavery,but even the north treated the blacks as lesser men.

Answer 6

The war was never about slavery, it was about money.