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Black Confederates

Defending Their Inferiority

This course exposes an issue that is never discussed in any public space, United States slaves that defended the slave system. You will learn what these people were thinking. Black people had a variety of reasons for defending the Confederate States. This course is an attempt to move beyond judgment of slave soldiers for the slave states. You will see the world from the eyes of slave soldiers for the confederacy as well as free southern black people who owned slaves themselves. The Black Confederacy course is important because we still have people who serve systems that destroy them as they serve.

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This course exposes an issue that is never discussed in any public space, United States slaves that defended the slave system. You will learn what these people were thinking. Black people had a variety of reasons for defending the Confederate States. This course is an attempt to move beyond judgment of slave soldiers for the slave states. You will see the world from the eyes of slave soldiers for the confederacy as well as free southern black people who owned slaves themselves. The Black Confederacy course is important because we still have people who serve systems that destroy them as they serve.

I have been thinking about editing a book made of letters or stories from black Confederate soldiers, so I was delighted to find the book Black Southerners in Gray. I knew I had to develop a course for this subject. People are often embracing social behavior that is self-destructive in an institutional way. We often wonder why or how those people could betray their own survival. I named the course Black Confederates because the concept makes people look again. The idea of slaves fighting for their own bondage shocks us, gives us a jolt to our brain. I hope that you will give an honest look at black slave soldiers, then recognize people in your life that work against their own freedom.

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