Were There Really BLACK CONFEDERATES

Episode 6 of Checkmate, Lincolnites! Debunking the Lost Cause myth that tens of thousands of black men served as soldiers in the Confederate army during the American Civil War. Support Atun-Shei Films on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/atunsheifilms Leave a Tip via Paypal ► https://www.paypal.me/atunsheifilms Buy Merch ► https://teespring.com/stores/atun-shei-films Official Website ► https://www.atunsheifilms.com/ Original Music by Dillon DeRosa ► http://dillonderosa.com/ ~REFERENCES~ [1] “Black Confederate Movement ‘Demented’” (2014). AmericanForum /watch/MjhJGlWIFYfIJ [2] Sam Smith. “Black Confederates: Myth and Legend.” American Battlefield Trust https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/black-confederates [3] “25th USCT: The Sable Sons of Uncle Abe.” National Park Service https://www.nps.gov/articles/25-usct.htm [4] Justin A. Nystrom. New Orleans After the Civil War (2010). Johns Hopkins Press, Page 20-27 [5] Kevin M. Levin. Searching for Black Confederates (2019). University of North Carolina Press, Page 45 [6] James Parton. General Butler in New Orleans (1864). Mason & Hamlin, Page 516-517 [7] Levin, Page 12-15 [8] Levin, Page 34-35 [9] Myra Chandler Sampson & Kevin M. Levin. “The Loyalty of ‘Heroic Black Confederate’ Silas Chandler” (2012). HistoryNet https://www.historynet.com/loyalty-silas-chandler.htm [10] Levin, Page 82-83 [11] James G. Hollandsworth, Jr. Looking for Bob: Black Confederate Pensioners After the Civil War (2007). The Journal of Mississippi History, Vol. LXVIX, Page 304-306 [12] Lewis H. Steiner. An Account of the Operations of the U.S. Sanitary Commission During the Campaign in Maryland, September 1862 (1862). Anson D. F. Randolph, Page 19-20 [13] Levin, Page 32-33 [14] Charles Augustus Stevens. Berdan’s United States Sharpshooters in the Army of the Potomac (1892). Price-McGill Company, Page 54-55 [15] Levin, Page 44 [16] Andy Hall. “Frederick Douglass and the ‘N*gro Regiment’ at First Manassas” (2011). Dead Confederates Blog https://deadconfederates.com/2011/07/30/frederick-douglass-reads-the-paper/ [17] Jaime Amanda Martinez. “Black Confederates” (2018). Encyclopedia Virginia https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Black_Confederates [18] Levin, Page 58-61 [19] Levin, Page 39 [20] Levin, Page 46

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