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

it was state rights period .

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?

you should write an article about it and put it on buzzfeed

jesus christ dude

your 17

it would help you a lot if you had an open mind to other ideas

and not just try to prove a point

I was asking a question tho

Yes I was.

im not saying im perfect, but im old enough to be your father, and you know what, quite a few people have called me out on my bull shit on this server. You know what I did. I LISTENED and am better for it