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It seems like an act of faith in something that didn't exist.
At home, the inherent racism of the US denied them the very "freedoms" they were dying for.
They fought in the First War and nothing really changed, they should have learned from that.
Having said that, being bombed in Europe was probably preferable to life in the slave states.
Did black people see their daily lives improve as a result of their sacrifice ?
Wow, don't tell me you are seriously this stupid?
Are you not aware of history?
Slavery was over before the 20th century you dolt.
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When the HMS drafts you, did the British say "no?" I doubt it, no matter how they felt about it.
Pretty much the same was true.
You start some pretty dumb threads sometimes.
They went, b/c it was either that or prison.
The ending of slavery was one step on the way. Blacks were still second class citizens in the US. Why fight for that ?
You are ignoring Conscription.
They are fighting for second class citizenship, they are making a rational decision between honor and a prison record.
Between having a future and guaranteed poverty.
Between a possibility of this;

Vernon Baker - Wikipedia
. . and this. . .

. . . seriously. ..
Why do you ask such dumb questions?
