RE: [DL] Freeing the Slaves

["Mark Chiddicks" <Mark.Chiddicks@descisys.com>]

Slaves were not Southerners, they just lived in the same place.

You have a very rose-tinted view of slavery, thats all I can say.


-----Original Message-----
From: Munch Wolf [mailto:munchwolf@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, 1 August 2002 6:55 p.m.
To: deadlands@gamerz.net
Subject: RE: [DL] Freeing the Slaves 



> From: Mark.Chiddicks@descisys.com
> 
> Not really. Had the number of blacks in the CSA army
> ever risen to a significant percentage, they would
> simply have turned around, killed their officers and
> hastened a Union victory - why would former slaves
> be willing to die for their masters?
> 

Sorry I don't see it.  Nationalism is a strong force. 
The ex-slaves are Southeners born and bred, why would
they help the Union?

-MW

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