"What Does Hannibal Alexander Tell Us About Black " Topic
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| Tango01 | 26 Jan 2019 4:12 p.m. PST |
….Confederate PoWs? "One of the things that's often offered as evidence of African Americans serving as Confederate soldiers is the fact that some of these men were captured and held in Northern prison camps. Why would these men be held if they were not soldiers? goes the thinking, and there are PoW records that show them as soldiers. It's a compelling rhetorical argument, but reality is oftentimes more complex than that. From the Confederate Veteran, January 1901:…."
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 26 Jan 2019 5:03 p.m. PST |
Very interesting. Thanks! |
Dn Jackson  | 27 Jan 2019 6:19 p.m. PST |
What it tells us that loyalties were more complicated than we like to think. Things were not as black and white, (no pun intended), as modern historians make it out to be. |
| Hector Blackwolf | 28 Jan 2019 12:25 p.m. PST |
Social relationships are very simple when viewed from the outside and very complex when view from within. Russian peasants performed extraordinary feats of arms and endurance is campaigns that, on paper, did nothing but strengthen their oppressors. One of the limitations of history is that we generally do not know the thoughts of the great mass of people at the bottom of the social ladder. |
| Tango01 | 28 Jan 2019 2:44 p.m. PST |
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