How many blacks fought for the South in the Civil war and why?Did blacks have the same interest as whites?

Question

How many blacks fought for the South in the Civil war and why?Did blacks have the same interest as whites?

How many blacks owned slaves in Charleston, South Carolina during the Civil war? Why?

Answer 1

i heard that blacks did serve for the south at the last year of the war because they promist them freedom the civil war was knot just because of slavery it was because the north and south had different beliefs and it was over the land many people died brothers fought brothers over stupid ignorence and race over 300,000 people died  

Answer 2

It is estimated that between 178,000 and 188,000 blacks had enlisted as volunteers for one side or the other by the end of the Civil War.  It is interesting that even in the North they were not normally integrated but served in all-black regiments.  Several thousand blacks volunteered to fight for the Confederacy, and reportedly supported succession.

http://www.archives.gov/education/lesson...

In the decades just prior to the Civil War, black slave ownership was at an all-time high.  From a well-known research article by Robert Grooms (1997):

"According to federal census reports, on June 1, 1860 there were nearly 4.5 million Negroes in the United States, with fewer than four million of them living in the southern slaveholding states. Of the blacks residing in the South, 261,988 were not slaves. Of this number, 10,689 lived in New Orleans. The country's leading African American historian, Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, records that in New Orleans over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that city.

To return to the census figures quoted above, this 28 percent is certainly impressive when compared to less than 1.4 percent of all American whites and less than 4.8 percent of southern whites. The statistics show that, when free, blacks disproportionately became slave masters."

Other sources:  

http://www.issues-views.com/index.php/se...

http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/cabildo/cab10...  (Scroll down.)

Answer 3

Really ? . . . I mean . . . Really ??

Wow.

Answer 4

Lots of blacks have fought and worked for this country.  Many whites and blacks love this country and always have, some were not treated right in the begining but at least they are here

Answer 5

The best estimate has been a few thousand.  While slaves were prohibited by law from carrying a gun, free blacks had full citizenship (and some even owned slaves) and the south of that time was not very anti-black (ie, whites and blacks worked side by side while in the north, hiring a black man would cause the whites to quit and even slaves were permitted to go to town on their own to buy groceries for their owners, sell things they made, etc) so the free blacks were not in separate black regiments.  Why?  They were patriotic citizens of their state.  This was not a war over slavery although both sides used this tact to convonce some people that war was neccessary.  The upstart Republican Party was bent on making laws that would ruin the southern economy such as the huge tariff on English goods so the south left the union (as was legal at the time) but leaving the union would hurt the north badly as most government income came from southern ports and the CSA was a free trade nation so Lincoln declared war on his own and even appropriated funds on his own for the war (both highly unconstitutional).

I'm not sure about Charleston in particular but 10% of southerners owned slaves with 2% having more then five.  Like today, in order to compete in an export market, cheap farm labor was needed.  The five or less owners generally did the same work as their slaves.  Sadly, the south was in the process of ending slavery through the British mode; of slow assimulation.  If it weren't for the mass dumping of slaves as free men without preparation, black Americans would not have the problms thay have had and to some extent, still do.  Today, we still have what amounts to slaves but we call them illegal aliens.