"J.H. Stringfellow, a Confederate surgeon, wrote to Jefferson Davis to urge the emancipation and enlistment of slaves. Oddly, his view of the lot of former slaves in a victorious south sounds a lot like what happened in a defeated south:
"If we emancipate, our independence is secured, the white man only will have any and all political rights, retain all his real and personal property, exclusive of his property in his slave; make the laws to control the freed negro, who having no land, must labor for the landowner, and being an adequate supply of labor must work for the landowner on terms about as economical as though owned by him. "
He was sure that if the North won, property confiscated from the white rebels would be given to the former slaves:
"And, sir, if the war continues as it is now waged, and we are forced, by the overwhelming odds of the Yankees and our own slaves in arms against us, into submission, it would be but an act of simple justice for the Yankee Government to see to it that their negro allies are at least as well provided for in the way of homes as those who have been arrayed in arms against them."…"
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Amicalement
Armand
completes a Confederate river ironclad.
