Simply to help fill out the picture suggested above, some slaves favored the Confederacy simply because it was the only life they knew, their masters were not stereotypically cruel, and they hated the idea of an army of white "foreigners" (probably no better than the white slaveholders they knew) destroying their "homeland." They favored the devil they knew.

People a hundred and fifty years ago were just as varied in their sometimes ill-advised and unexpected beliefs as they are today.