Why did the Confederacy wait until the last minute to grant emancipation in exchange for military service to any of their slaves?
There were 3.5 million slaves in the South. Just 1% of that in manpower would have brought Robert E. Lee to roughly equivalent numbers to Grant during the Appomattox Campaign.
They almost rioted even at that point. Most Southerners would rather lose than free blacks themselves.
No blacks didn't care. There were a lot of black soldiers they just didn't see combat because it was all north.
The Whites were rioting. And blacks were fighting for the North. You don't understand history.
moron, incoherent reply.
Because the whole point of the war was to stop Haiti 2.0, and giving blacks guns was just accelerating the start of Haiti 2.0. When it came out to the public that blacks would be armed there were mass desertions and what remained of any resolve to resist the Union was extinguished because at this point there was little difference between the Confederacy and Union in policy.
But the entire civil war was fake. It's refuted by demographics.
Blacks didn't care or do anything nor did anyone. It was literally a nonevent.
Where are you getting this argument from? Open to hearing it, but have absolutely no idea what you're referring to. Are you saying Gettysburg etc didn't happen?
No physical evidence
Can you make the argument? What do you mean by demographically impossible?
What about all the photographs? Shell damage inside buildings, etc?
https://www.archives.gov/research/still-pictures/civil-war
He's a schizo that sages threads by spamming incoherent garbage and regularly gets banned
Not just fear of armed uprising, southerners saw themselves as a knightly class defending the established order. They saw themselves as the greatest warriors in history, and that blacks were subhumans too feeble minded for good soldiering. Their entire worldview comes crashing down when they start arming blacks to fight
The North thought the same way. Hating blacks was universal
The elites didn’t, and they’re the ones whose opinion matters.
>The elites didn’t
Yes anon, everybody hated blacks back then.
Except for all those pesky abolitionists who were extremely organized and active in the 1850’s.
Yes, I understand this, it’s a form of race based welfare that gives obscene profits to the well connected, keeps poor whites propped up economically and culturally, and requires continuous expansion in order to maintain. The south wasn’t revolting because Lincoln was coming to take away their slaves, they revolted because he was halting the westward expansion of slavery, and they could see the writing on the wall and knew that it would mean the end of their lifestyles
Slavery was never profitable. It lost money. You're literally a moron.
Those weren’t distributed evenly, and that’s the point: it enriches a well connected minority and impoverished the rest. Also, your calculations fail to note the fact that slaves breed more slaves for free (even go breed themselves and sell their own children into slavery), and that they could make a profit selling new slaves to new slave plantations being created out west. It was a giant Ponzi scheme
Lies
Slavery was being kept alive as a zombie institution that was like the agrarian version of corporate welfare for plantation owners. Meanwhile, anti-slave militias functioned as a type of workfare for poor whites, meaning that no matter how down on their luck they had fallen, they could maintain their lifestyle by grabbing their gun and horse and joining an anti-slave militia and make a respectable fee returning runaway slaves. That’s to say nothing of the middle managers, traders, overseers, and bean counters employed by an industry which overwhelmingly dominated the economy, and the associated tradesmen and service sector jobs benefiting from the stolen wealth funneling into their communities
Can you name one prominent abolitionist that wasn't a crackpot christian that genuinely wanted to end slavery out of sympathy for blacks that wasn't some sort of socialist?
Yes, I know your impulse is to dismiss them as radical socialists and crackpots. That’s why you’re pulling shit out of your ass
You don’t pay the slaves in food, you make them grow their own
So you understand, the only abolitionists that pretended to care about blacks were socialists. Most abolitionists however were religious crackpots that feared retribution from God
Abolition was associated with the back to Africa movement.
Many people who weren't abolitionists wanted to ship blacks out of the country, what's your point? You think they liked blacks?
President John Quincy Adams, Cassius Clay, Elizabeth Van Lew, and John C. Frémont.
You literally didn't read, slavery was not profitable, it did not generate cash flow. It's impossible to pay Slaves food and make profit on cotton. But whatever it collapses anyway. It barely lasted any time.
Actually you did read, you just phrased it differently. You probably could make money purely as a Ponzi scheme aspect where you didn't actually need slaves.
Even abolitionists hated blacks. Most of them were just religious nuts who thought that Jesus would curse them if they let slavery continue. It wasn't about blacks at all, they could have been arabs or natives.
Elaborate on the welfare idea
White mans burden. Slave owners were lawyers or had real jobs. Agriculture is overwhelmingly unprofitable in monetary terms and as soon as modern farming started it became subsidized. In the past agriculture was funded by other things or was for subsistence.
You cannot possibly profit of taxes or something else takes the profit.
They were worried that arming freed slaves would either lead to slave revolts or just result in them defecting to the north at the first opportunity
Are you the same moron that goes into every other thread claiming that every single historical event was just made up?
You're literally a moron. It's literally demographically impossible. You're just a spammer. But I mean you just act moronic for attention and don't matter.
He's a holocaust worshipper trying to discredit holocaust denial by denying every events
Supply's was the problem, not manpower. Same reason Germany didn't recruit all the Ukrainians.
Cause their entire raison d'etre was slavery and white supremacy.
>give slaves guns
>slaves shoot you and run to Union lines
The only way this strategy could have worked would have been when the Confederacy still had the upper hand and the blacks had reason to believe they had more to benefit from siding with their masters than siding with their "liberators" (I use quotations because the vast majority of the Union Army were not interested in fighting a war to free the slaves) and requires at least the appearance that their masters are going to win.
Civil war was fake. Refuted by demographics.
Slaves were workers, with all the whites off fighting in the war they were needed in the fields more than ever. One of the main worries of plantation owners was that while they were away fighting in the war was that their slaves would hurt their wives and children