Only a tiny handful of slaves responded to the Confederate proposal. They viewed it as an act of desperation and were skeptical of the sincerity of promises of emancipation. The reaction of the slaves generally was 'Why would we fight for the Confederacy it's not our country They were very well informed through the grapevine.
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The more I read about this episode, the more I realized how important it was to our understanding of the war it wasn't just an interesting little footnote. After all, how could the war be about slavery if the Confederates were willing to sacrifice slavery in order to win the war And it turned out that there was a cornucopia of information on that and related subjects available in letters, government documents, and newspaper articles and editorials.
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