The short answer is: Yes. There is plenty of evidence that Black Southerners expressed what could be interpreted as loyalty to the Confederacy. No, I haven’t finally turned to the dark side and embraced the neo-Confederate fantasy of the “loyal slave” narrative.
I am simply acknowledging that evidence can be…
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