Question

Which statement explains why the Confederacy did not draft slaves and free blacks into the army?

Answer 1

Answer:

Southerners did not want to enlist African Americans into the army.

Explanation:

Enlisting African Americans into the army was generally a bad idea for a number of reasons:

1) The general belief of most Southerners was that whites were more superior to the African race, and this continued on with whites fighting the wars instead of Africans until later on. This was also true for the union, which did not fully make use of African Americans as enlisted soldiers until towards the middle of the war.

2) Another reason that slaves were not drafted, was because slaves and free blacks within the south were against the Confederacy. If you draft people against their will and belief, most likely the army would be destroyed from the inside out. The whole point of the war was for them to keep them as slaves, and drafting them would be going against the very thing they were fighting for, slavery, and the supremacy of whites.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Union troops opposed the enlistment of African Americans.

Explanation:

They were afraid that they might turn against the Confederacy, African Americans were oppressed in the South through the institution of slavery, there were no reasons whatsoever for them to fight on the side of the Confederacy.