Edgeplay_cgo
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The house negros vs slave negro dynamic is a real thing, slaves fighting on behalf of their masters isn't a new phenomenon.You don't remember Gone with the wind, birth of a Nation and the thousand and one pieces of Jim Crow propaganda.
Nathan Bedford Forest is a complex figure. There was a large number of Blacks in his cavalry brigade. At his going away speech, he was effusive in his praise of them; describing them as "the finest of Confederates." Yes, he was a founder of the KKK, but he reportedly tried to disband it when it started to go crazy. It obviously didn't stay disbanded, eh? He was one of our earliest civil rights activists; launching a number of civil rights suits at his own expense. When he died, over 5,000 Blacks attended his funeral. OTOH, before the War, he was a slave trader. The peri bellum period is very complex.
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Correct. And there was a population of freedmen who mourned the passage of slavery. Life was tough, but secure. You ate. We see the same thing with Osties, former East Germans. There was a controversial high school essay assignment done in a Chicago Black neighborhood. The question was "Would you rather live in freedom or slavery, and why?" A large number of students, perhaps the majority, voted for slavery. The overwhelming reason was, "You eat."