Black American Revolutionary Soldiers

 James Madison, speaking to Joseph Jones November 28, 1780,” asked “would it not be as well to liberate and make soldiers at once of the blacks themselves, as to make them instruments for enlisting white soldiers?  It would certainly be more consonant to the principles liberty which ought never to be lost sight of in a contest for liberty” Alan Gilbert writes, “Madison had long feared black revolt as the Revolution’s Achilles heel” Madison proposed the intermingling black soldiers with majority white soldiers to keep the blacks from revolting.  Legislature came against Madison’s proposal.  It is unjust to free slaves to sacrifice the property of some at the demise for the profit of other slave owners. See, for the white man, it was thought that it would be unjust sacrificing the property of some for the exoneration of the other slaveholders. So putting a slave in a battle that would have him (sic) killed is worse than beating him (sic) each day to get sufficient work done. Jones wrote to James Madison that he had "objections" to the Constitution and wished to see a bill of rights attached. Blacks were hired by the British Crown and served to undermine the Revolution to the extent it could, as it also freed slaves. Jones feared the collapse of plantations if the British would emancipate slaves by making them soldiers.  Jones revered emancipation for slaves through the hire of slaves to be soldiers.  So as slaves were hired by the British, they became soldiers to die anyways, some emancipation, huh?  I guess being emancipated in this way was a way for blacks to escape torture and humiliation and was a chance for the hope that they would ultimately win and be free altogether.  It did not happen that way. Black soldiers fought on both sides of the American Revolution, and many died or became slaves again; some retained emancipation, though. This must come as marvelous news and great comfort for people of color at all times and places to hear such a good story (sarcasm).  Scholars of African or Black Studies would have to be repulsed by the reasoning to emancipate slaves by turning them (like objects to be manipulated) into soldiers.  This whole idea of slave vs soldier is an oxymoronic thing to think.  So freedom fighting black soldiers in the American Revolution, on either side, was hardly emancipation for many, not any at all if you ask me.

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