 | James Ford Rhodes - 1904 - 696 páginas
...was the owner of a thousand negroes.2 " The day you make soldiers of them " [the negroes] he wrote, " is the beginning of the end of the revolution. If...good soldiers our whole theory of slavery is wrong." 8 In truth it might have been asked if we are voluntarily going to give our slaves freedom wherefore... | |
 | 1919 - 650 páginas
...since the war began," continuing, "you cannot make soldiers of slaves or slaves of soldiers. . . . The day you make soldiers of them is the beginning of the revolution. If slaves will make good soldiers, our whole theory of slavery is wrong." To him it was... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1917 - 532 páginas
...negroes, argued against it with force. "The day you make soldiers of them" [the negroes], he wrote, "is the beginning of the end of the revolution. If...good soldiers our whole theory of slavery is wrong." 2 In truth it might have been asked, if we are voluntarily going to free our slaves, wherefore did... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1917 - 686 páginas
...negroes, argued against it with force. "The day you make soldiers of them" [the negroes], he wrote, "is the beginning of the end of the revolution. If...good soldiers our whole theory of slavery is wrong." 2 In truth it might have been asked, if we are voluntarily going to free our slaves, wherefore did... | |
 | Francis Greenwood Peabody - 1918 - 470 páginas
...stated by Howell Cobb, who at the beginning of the war owned one thousand Negroes, and who wrote : "The day you make soldiers of them is the beginning of the end of the revolution. If slaves make good soldiers our whole theory of slavery is wrong"; * and by the remarks of Senator Hunter, whose... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1919 - 526 páginas
...troops together and you can't trust Negroes by themselves. . . . Use all the Negroes you can get for all purposes for which you need them but don't arm them....beginning of the end of the revolution. If slaves make good soldiers, our whole theory of slavery is wrong."29 General Beauregard, Commander of the Department... | |
 | John B. Boles - 1983 - 260 páginas
...arm slaves was to repudiate their entire world view. As General Howell Cobb argued in January 1865, "If slaves will make good soldiers our whole theory of slavery is wrong." Yet the Confederacy was collapsing around them at the end of 1864. Savannah had fallen, and in desperation... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 1988 - 952 páginas
...agreed that "the moment you resort to negro soldiers your white soldiers will be lost to you. . . . The day you make soldiers of them is the beginning...good soldiers our whole theory of slavery is wrong. " ' ' And was not that the theory the South fought for? "It would be the most extraordinary instance... | |
 | Randall C. Jimerson - 1994 - 308 páginas
...a further contradiction. "You cannot make soldiers of slaves, nor slaves of soldiers," he insisted. "The day you make soldiers of them is the beginning of the end of the revolution. If slaves make good soldiers, our whole theory of slavery is wrong — but they won't make soldiers." Such inconsistencies... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 2003 - 947 páginas
...soldiers your white soldiers will lost to you. . . . The day you make soldiers of them is the beginning f the end of the revolution. If slaves will make good soldiers our whole icory of slavery is wrong." " And was not that the theory the South fought for? "It would be the lost... | |
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The day you make soldiers of them is the beginning of the end of the revolution. If slaves will make good soldiers our whole theory of slavery is wrong — but they won't make soldiers 
