Hi Azizi-

..I still think that there were probably some African Americans who were in favor of the Confederacy for any number of reasons...

I didn't mean to dispute that- there were, certainly, tho I've never seen any reliable documentation that they numbered more than a very few. Some free Blacks- notably in the New Orleans area- also owned slaves, but they were the exception rather than the rule.

300 years of being terrorized, exploited, brutalized, denied any sort of educational opportunity, & etc., etc. can put some strange notions of what's in ones' own best interests in a person's head. There have been any number of historical treatments that touch on this aspect of the Slave experience in the Americas. I could suggest Eugene D. Genovese's Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made Pantheon 1972/1974; Herbert G. Gutman's The Black Family in Slavery and FreedonPantheon 1976, and Ira Berlin's Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America" Harvard U. Press 1998 among many others. Also various psychological studies re: "Stockholm Syndrome" & etc.

I suspect, also, that most that did so lived to deeply regret it thru their experiences with the post-War "Black Codes", the abandonment of Reconstruction and Black civil rights, Southern "Redemption", Jim Crow the Klan & etc.

Best, Greg