I am often asked this when I respond to an individual online who is pushing the Black Confederate myth. It has come up a couple times over the past few weeks owing to my responses to an individual on twitter, who has been reading and offering commentary about my book, Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth.
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