To most contemporary Americans, the idea that people of African descent served in the Confederate Army is something that has to be explained, if not explained away. For Civil War buffs and those who keep alive the memory of the Confederacy, the topic has become a significant preoccupation. On the one hand, some neo-Confederates are eager to put an inclusive face on the Lost Cause of the Civil War, and the image of black faces in gray uniforms. That idea suggesting the war was about a way of life and states rights rather than slavery per se. Join Dr. Scott for an in depth discussion of both sides of story behind the African American Confederate soldiers.
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