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June 2, 2012

By Sergio, Shadow and Act: Cinema of the African Diaspora

This documentary examines the reality of slaves fighting for the Confederacy, which some modern Black Americans still honor (Hunter McRae/Savannah Morning News)

There has been a movement for the longest time by so-called “historians” who argue and claim to have definitive proof that there were many black slaves, up to over 90,000 some claim, who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War.

The reason why this fact hasn’t been more well known, according to these mainly white Southern historians and defenders of “Southern heritage” , is because of an evil and diabolical conspiracy created by Union sympathizers and historians who have the audacity to claim that black slavery was a horrible and destructive thing – the lasting legacy of which we’re still struggling with today.

Thankfully, educator and documentary filmmaker Ken Wyatt, has made a truly fascinating and much needed film to set this nonsense straight, in his new documentary, Colored Confederates: Myth or Matter of Fact?, which is now playing the film festival circuit here and in Germany, and will soon be screened at the Black Harvest Film Festival in Chicago in August 2012.

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