Jefferson Davis was the obvious preference because it you could keep slavery going for a little bit longer then maybe people would get pissed and burn it all down
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As disenfranchised as Black people in the Union were it's pretty dishonest to pretend there wasn't a very, very strong pro-Union "bias" among Black people as a class, you can go back and read what people said
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There wasn’t a strong union bias, most black people in the South didn’t even know what was going on or that their freedom was at stake. This is a horrible take.
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This really isn’t true. After the war broke up and particularly after the emancipation population enslaved people escaped when they knew the union army was near. There were significant networks of information that enslaved people had access to
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To make the assumption that slaves had “preferences” between which oppressors they liked more is disgusting. Not a single one of you knew what they knew. You’ve been told stories of the most unique slave experiences (the Underground Railroad). Most did not have those resources.
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The historical evidence that people preferred not being enslaved to being enslaved is pretty darn strong
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Juneteenth celebrations showed up and became a tradition very quickly after the end of the war
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