nov 14, 1861 - Jefferson Davis
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Jefferson Davis was an American politician who served as the President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. March 1865 Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, signed a law that let blacks serve in the army of the South. But before the law had any effect, the war ended. The South had lost, and its slaves learned that they were now free. If slaves could fight as soldiers the whole idea of slavery is wrong. I think he meant that if slaves were to actually fight for being slaves, then we wouldn’t have to constrain them and force them to work, but we do, so they would hate to fight for being a slave.
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