The concept of black confederates is one that I find quite interesting. While it is known that African American slaves were used by the Confederate army for labor and other non-combat roles, the use of slaves as combatants is one that I personally find rather bothersome. While there are two different opposing viewpoints to the civil war; the northern view of freeing the slaves and the southern view of states rights, the fact remains that the south did indeed have slaves. The idea that slaves would willingly fight for those that imprisoned them and forced them to work for their entire lives, in my opinion does not hold water. While there very well may have been a few cases in which freed African Americans fought for the south, or in which slaves fought in exchange for their freedom, the idea that there were a substantial number of southern slave-combatants to me is absurd. Personally, I would view it from the perspective that if I was to be oppressed for a system my entire life, I would have no incentive to support it, and if anything, rebel against it at the first chance I had.