Clip 3 from 'Black Confederates: The Forgotten Men in Gray'

Clips from the documentary 'Black Confederates: The Forgotten Men in Gray' directed by Stan Armstrong. Available at www.desertrosefilms.7p.com

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Education

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• black confederates
• african americans
• confederacy
• Nathan Bedford Forrest
• slaves
• southern states
• servants
• Robert E Lee
• CSA
• American Civil War
• Rebels
• gray
• Cleburne
• master
• South
• confederate flag

[steve0448]

Sorry blackmale78, you are doing what the one professor warned against in this video. You are trying to judge people 150 years ago by todays standards. The history is clear. Many so called masters and slaves had been raised together and were close friends. Even to to point of being like brothers. Thousands of such accounts exist. They remained close for the rest of their lives, when there was no master/slave relationship. That is just document fact.

[Luigi84289]

Many of them looked at their masters like parents and or friends. They raised them from birth and took care of them. Were there in good times and bad, in sickness and health and loved them as family. This is why Black and White people are so close in the south today. Mississippi's state flag has the cross of st andrew, the confederate battle flag and it has the highest % of black people out of any state. My mother grew up in Alabama and one of her best friends was their black house maid.

[TheBlackSkif]

April 4, 1865 in Amelia County (Virginia) Federal cavalry attacked a convoy south, and is fully provided by the protected part of the black Marines Major Turner. They fought to the end, fought off several attacks, and have not been crushed by the enemy for as long as no ammunition ran out.

[TheBlackSkif]

4 апреля 1865 г. в графстве Амелия (Вирджиния) федеральная кавалерия атаковала южный обоз, полностью обеспечиваемый и охраняемый чернокожими пехотинцами из части майора Тернера. Они сражались до конца, отбили несколько атак, и не были смяты врагом до тех пор, пока не закончились боеприпасы.

[TheBlackSkif]

Thousands of blacks took part in the war on the side of this southern state! Free and Forced negros were even in shock cavalry units Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, known for their ruthlessness and desperate raids at the rear of the enemy. General Forrest, the most aggressive commander CSA and implacable enemy of the northerners, and gave them a very flattering assessment: "These guys stayed with me until the end. People like them - better than the Confederacy had! "

[TheBlackSkif]

Тысячи чернокожих приняли участие в этой войне на стороне именно южных штатов! Свободные и подневольные негры служили даже в ударных кавалерийских частях Натаниэля Бедфорда Форреста, известных своей беспощадностью и отчаянными рейдами по тылам неприятеля. генерал Форрест, самый агрессивный военачальник CSA и непримиримый враг северян, давал им крайне лестную оценку: «Эти парни оставались со мною до конца. Люди вроде них — лучшее, чем обладала Конфедерация!»

[wlomas378]

well, that last anecdote was very touching

[SOUTHERNANDPROUD1861]

God bless the proud blacks for there service for fighting for the freedom of the south you wont be forgotten.DEO VINDICE

[huguenot67]

Silly deconstructioninsts, southern blacks weren't fighting for their masters, they were fighting for their homes, just as in the Revolution.

[nivlek64]

i am from the south i love my black friends ,i dont care why i love them , i would lay down my life for them ,they ,i do believe would do the same... if you have a problem with this , maybe you ought to take a long look at your own self... the roots of hate are usually fear and misconception.....

[CalypieAndroid]

@cleanhomer OF COURSE IT WAS TOCKHOLM SYNDROME., YOU DONT COME OUT OF YEARS OF TORTURE, A AS NORMAL!

[cleanhomer]

@37stepp The genuine affections, I wonder if the affections of the slave was a type of live-long Stockholm Syndrome, if you know what I mean?