Reply #45: I find this claim dubious. Also if you are a slave, how do you "voluntarily" fight for your master?

[SweetieD]

The entire premise is absurd. Did Patty Hearst want to rob banks? Did black slaves want to fight for their master? I'm sure there was elements of Stockholm syndrome. Even if there were black soldiers how much of it could have been voluntary? If your master said fight with me or else? What would you do? Maybe your master might have said, fight with me and I will make sure you are free if the Confederacy wins. So you might think "hey that's a good deal." There is also the issue that many joined the Union and Confederacy simply for rations, something to eat, a place to stay. They could've joined for those reasons as well. But to think black soldiers wanted slavery and wanted to fight for the Confederacy to protect its institution is crazy.