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Still stuck on ignorence, racism, and distortion are you, Bigot Bob? The only slaves documented to go into combat were two or three slaves belonging to General Nathan Bedford Forrest who he had brought to camp as servants, and who asked to be allowed to go into battle. They fought so well, that Gereral Foreest immediately gave them their freedom, and they then enlisted in the Confederate cavalry. One of the leading Confederate generals in the Trans-Mississippi Department (west of the Mississippi river) urged the Confederate government to formally offer slaves their freedom if they enlisted in the Confederate army, but the government never agreed to that. Other than General Forrest's slaves, the black men in the Confederate army and navy were all free blacks who fought to defend their homeland like other southerners. In 1861, twenty percent of Southern blacks were free blacks and about ten percent of them owned slaves themselves. The military pension records of southern states several decades later show thousands of black men drawing Confederate military pensions.

Commented: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 12:54 pm By: John Steed

and E, did you know that slavery had benefits to the enslaved to the point where they could join the confederate army to fight the North because they wanted to stay slaves? the history one can earn on this site!!!

Commented: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 10:33 am By: Big Bob

Oh Bridget, absolutely none of this is true.

Commented: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 10:37 am By: Big Bob

This is disgusting. First class people are no better than anyone else. They are teaching their children to be entitled brats. Shame on them and shame on the airlines for allowing this awful practice.

Commented: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 10:24 am By: Bridgit

Eschborntt: I think a good bit of common sense was lost in this translation of your comment regarding Soros the Evil ... Try again.

Commented: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 7:32 am By: Stan Deatherage

Maybe trump can start a go-fund me?

Commented: Saturday, August 26th, 2023 @ 7:45 pm By: big bob

Free speech is a core value of American democracy. Lose it, and we lose our democracy. The left doesn't care, as they want an authoritarian government anyway.

Commented: Saturday, August 26th, 2023 @ 2:22 pm By: Conservative Voter

CV: If Mr. Trump had gotten busted for leaking classified emails from an unsecured server to our enemies, and then deleting those subpoenaed emails, which at its core is public property, and then destroying all devices used to store and disseminate said subpoenaed emails, even as President, Mr. Trump would have been indited by this corrupt Biden DOJ on enough charges that these non patriot Leftists would have put him away for a thousand years minimum.

What a difference a name makes to the corrupt, non patriot Left. We must save this Representative Republic by destroying all that is corrupt, and that needs to begin NOW.

Commented: Saturday, August 26th, 2023 @ 2:12 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Indeed, billionaire rich white boys are at such a disadvantage.

Commented: Saturday, August 26th, 2023 @ 10:44 am By: Big Bob

This sounds like a 10 year old's tantrum no wonder people are losing faith in the Republicans party the dumb Republicans who elected him in the first place are responsible for our country going down. I have voted in the past I believe in it but of course it does not always go the way I want or would like but that is my opinion

Commented: Saturday, August 26th, 2023 @ 11:43 am By: Lynn

Doubling down on ignorance, Bolshevik Bob? Twenty percent of southern blacks prior to the War Between the States were free blacks, and ten percent of those free blacks owned slaves themselves. And in most southern states, free blacks had more rights than free blacks in many northern states due to the racist "Black Codes" enacted by many northern legislatures.

While 80% were slaves who had no control over their lives, the 20% who were free could do what they wanted, and many of them chose to join the Confederate army or navy. Here is Beaufort County, we had two thriving communities of free blacks prior to the war.

The only instance I have read of where slaves fought in battle involved several slaves of General Nathan Bedford Forrest whom he took with him to handle duties around the camp. After a while, they asked him to be allowed to ride into battle, and the General agreed. The slaves fought so well that after the battle, he gave them their freedom, and they immediately enlisted as regular cavalrymen.

You are dumb as a brick, Bobbie. All you know is your stupid far left narrative which is very often just wrong.

Commented: Saturday, August 26th, 2023 @ 10:09 am By: John Steed

I've been off Google for quite a while too. I usually use Duck Duck Go. I'll give Brave a look.

On a side note, I've sort of made a game out of reading those disclaimer warnings on Youtube sites. They're kind of funny, but in a very dark and disturbing way.

Commented: Saturday, August 26th, 2023 @ 9:24 am By: Charles Hickman