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so 200k blacks in the union armed forces
compared to 100k in the confederates
i see black ppl
never forget the 6 mil blacks
🤔
creole
Still, with a country with such a large slave population, the slaves themselves were vastly underutilised. They probably didn't arm them due to the understandable fear that they'd revolt.
There were slaves who served as body servants and cooks, and slaves who were forcibly enlisted into auxiliary roles, such as cleaning and reloading canons. I've read of very few documented cases of slaves actually armed and serving in combat roles.
yh
they only enlisted slaves as a last resort
they knew they wouldnt last long in the first stages of the war
they only got lucky
you realize the average iq of slaves were not quite high, they didn't pick them for their smarts
The Confederacy should've waited until industrialisation phased out slavery before seceding.
oh wow, you don't know much about this do you
sheeeeeeeeeeeeet
What?
you act like you know a lot about things you just learned
@Weaboo Kempeitai they seceeded because they feared lincoln would outlaw slavery regardless
slavery was being phased out
until the cotton gin was invented
i guess it could be argued about whether or not that was an idustrialized technology
but basically it made it economically viable to still use slave labor
he knows what the south should have done to win
Is IQ that important in war? Literally give slaves guns, send them at the enemy as canon fodder, or don't, go Stalin on them and use slaves as meatshields.
just keep shooting ghetto
you have to get them to follow insructions though
If you can pick cotton, you can use a gun, and iirc the harlem hellfighters were a highly decorated unit during WW1 and WW2, and they were largely made up of blacks.
is that the unit spielberg made a movie about?
The 369th Infantry Regiment, not sure.
tuskegee airmen?
that was almost 100 years after slavery though
they weren't just low iq in slave days, they were kept stupid as possible
pluss, being next to a slave was demorlizing for white men
So, basically, slaves wouldn't've made viable soldiers. The few slaves who did serve in the Confederacy were far more educated (cooks, house servants).
no, your right, the whole fucking war would have been won if the confedercy used slaves
hot take
Sweet
But then what?