
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, July 16, 1993                   TAG: 9307160375
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
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BLACKS FOUGHT FOR THE SOUTH

IN RESPONSE to Geoff Seamans' July 11 column ("Civil War continues to captivate Americans"), in which he states the South fought the War Between the States to preserve slavery:

Apparently, Seamans considers himself an authority on the subject. He states, "You don't try to dissolve a nation, nor do you precipitate inevitable war, simply to prove abstract debating points about constitutional theory."

He and his kind condemn the South, but say nothing about the blacks who cast their lot with the Confederacy. More than 800,000 worked for the Confederate Army. And, by the way, the ranks in the Confederate Army were not segregated as in the Union Army. The rebellion by the slaves against their masters, much to their credit, did not occur. They were Southerners, and fought against a foreign invader as their white Southern countrymen did. THOMAS N. HUTSON SALEM

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