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Who do you fantasize was “forcing” slaves to escape to freedom? And no, the overwhelming majority of slaves did not “stand by the Confederacy”. Ninety thousand former slaves signed up to join the USCT and help put an end to slavery once and for all, in fact.
See, this is why you have no credibility. You come up with the most mind-bogglingly stupid excuses to try and defend your “slavery wasn’t that bad” narrative.
Union soldiers "confiscated" the enemies' "property" by the thousands and used them as forced labor; some would call that slavery. As I state in my book, the politically incorrect runaway slaves are those who escaped and ran back to their plantations from whence they were forcibly removed.
And how many slaves (according to Federal data at the time) were in proximity of federal occupation or soldiers and intentionally stayed with their masters? How many other historical documents from former slaves back up the statistics and the fact that the o
verwhelming majority of slaves chose to stay loyal to the South?
How many southern blacks volunteered as non-combatants or fought in the southern armies? It is greater than your number, which included many free northern blacks. All these facts are readily available to any interested reader. But you have to be willing to learn.
See, this is why you have no credibility. You come up with the most mind-bogglingly stupid excuses to try and defend your “slavery wasn’t that bad” narrative.