They would cite not forcing slaves to fight in wars as proof they were better than the ancients (as opposed to terrified of being shot)https://twitter.com/cybren/status/865051748058238976 …
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The Confederacy was running really short on soldiers toward the end of the Civil War and really bitterly debated using enslaved soldiers
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They had no other option for manpower but opposed the idea "on principle"
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The reality being they had no way to enforce loyalty from enslaved soldiers but admitting that would undermine their whole cause
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Much more than other slaveowning societies the US South really emphasized the right to bear arms as delineating master vs slave
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It was very much something even a poor white man could be proud of and a factor used to recruit them into the war
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FTR it is possible to fight a war using soldiers you've enslaved who have no reason to love you but the South wasn't in a position to do it
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The British Empire were the all-time champions of using that particular technique
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But anyway bc the CSA used the "childlike" nature of Black ppl to justify slavery they railed against Union Black troops as a vile atrocity
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