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I was once put in the penalty box for 24 hours at the old place for posting a similar thread and calling a few lost causers some interesting names for claiming it never happened.
In fact it was a certain @jgoodguy who banished me for being a bad boy.
Can't be telling the truth now! That's a time-out for you and take Pat with you!
That's funny - even if the names fit you can't use them! Even Robert E Lee would wonder if these adherents of the St Robert of Lee catechism weren't a little tetched. The attitude of his senior officers - who saw with their own eyes - reflected the racial tones of the times and why some awful disasters happened - they just turned a blind eye. Slave trading Forrest once found a Union freedman's village and promptly destroyed it, sending the occupants back to his superiors to be returned or sold. They were in a world of hurt - his raid was on a Union depot for supplies....which happened to be going to the village. They were actually glad to see Forrest - that's how bad things were there!
Pat exaggerates. Any blacks were sent south to be claimed by owners, there is zero evidence that free blacks were sold into slavery.An article by @PatYoung about the Army Of Northern Virginia kidnapping free blacks in the north and sending them south to be sold as slaves.
Lee’s Army Moves Towards Gettysburg: Black Refugees Flee - Long Island Wins
The free black selling into slavery never happened.
I need to go back and look at my notes.
St Lee was ordered to round up any blacks his any came across and ship them south to determine their status. The was a law passed just before Gettysberg ordering the army to round up any blacks they came across and send them to depots for their status to be determined. I am sure the CSA lawmakers were not thinking of Pennsylvania when they passed the law but rounding up fugitive slaves closer to home, but orders are orders.
Monuments in public spaces seem to be an endangered species now.
I agree with that, but for the most part foraging parties could pick up stray blacks as well as cattle. IMHO Lee really did not care until he had to retreat with all his prisoners to carry along. As an aside, the Union refused to parole or swap prisoners.
If you really believe that, I have some land in the Sahara I'd like to sell you.
All I know is that there is no tangible support for free blacks sold into slavery by Lee's army. Some individual soldiers had the notion, but orders were to have them sent to headquarters. We have evidence of free blacks getting freed by prisoner exchanges and church ministers.
So the CSA congress goes to the trouble of debating and passing the law for the armies to "capture" black folks and and ship them south, and, out of an abundance of fairness and generosity disposed of all the captives in exchanges and freedom after "ascertaining their status" and none were sold or even given away to plantation owners? Then what on God's good earth could possibly have been the reason for the bill? You don't suppose that all those country boys in the ANV could instantly, on sight, tell a free black from a runaway, do you? So, the notion that free blacks weren't targets is absurd. And if they were indeed free, then their "capture" was kidnapping, in itself a crime. And it beggars belief to think that as many as possible were not sold to plantation owners - the very men who promulgated the bill ordering their capture. You think their motive was just to piss the north off?
The real reason free blacks were kidnapped is that with the high death rate of Southern young men their sisters were now lonely and cranky. The poor Confederate soldiers needed someone to get their sisters out of the house and be happy.An article by @PatYoung about the Army Of Northern Virginia kidnapping free blacks in the north and sending them south to be sold as slaves.
Lee’s Army Moves Towards Gettysburg: Black Refugees Flee - Long Island Wins
