http://www.amazon.com/Confederate-Emancipation-Southern-Slaves-during/dp/0195315863/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1350239735&sr=1-1&keywords=confederate emancipation
deals with a lot of the details of the subject of arming Blacks in the South.

It should be required reading for all on the subject of "Black Confederate Soldiers".

Bert:

You like quotes from Gen. Cleburne, you may want to include these on your site from his
proposal...
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/patrick-r-cleburne-et-al.html
"It is said slaves will not work after they are freed. We think necessity and a wise legislation will compel them to labor for a living."

And in the same theme of his "Proposal"...

"if we take this step now, we can mold the relations, for all time to come,between the white and colored races. ( And in that case) " we can control the negroes, and...they will still be our laborers as much as they now are; and, to all intents and purposes will be our servants at less cost than now."
(In a conversation with Congressman from Tennessee, Arthur St. Clair Colyar.)

Speaks volumes, does it not?
(Be careful of what you accuse of being racist?)

Kevin Dally