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Did Jefferson Davis use slaves tohelp fight the north?

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Yes, he used some from across the south with the consent of them and their master. He believed that no black man had to fight if he didnt want to. The idea of arming hundreds of thousands of slaves wasn't enacted until late in the war, he said that their would be no place for slavery after he got 300,000 negroes to retun after the war.

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