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The 1862 song "Kingdom Coming" is a light hearted pro-Union tune about a Southern slavocrat fleeing from the Union army, and his former slaves celebrating. They mock him, move into his manor, help themselves to his wine and cider, and lock their former overseer in a cellar before throwing the key down the well. My question is, in the context of real history, why would the slave owner be fleeing? In the song the narrator speculates that the slaver is going to try to escape the Union army by disguising himself. But what exactly would he have to fear other than his property and "property" getting confiscated, which he's already abandoning anyway? Did the Union army have a tendency of arresting or executing slave owners? Or is the song based on a false premise?
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>Why would somebody flee from an invading aggressor?
Really motivated my macadamias
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>>2976599
Union armies fielded black soldiers, who would invariably murder any slave owners they came across.
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>>2976633
>who would invariably murder any slave owners they came across
Post proof.
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>>2976599
>Haha bruh like what is looting haha like just stay in your homes nigga nothings gonna happen haha
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>>2976661
But in context he's already ceding all his property by abandoning it. And him trying to disguise himself certainly implies they were after slave owners specifically, no?
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>>2976692
it must be frustrating to go from a literally /pol/ lifestyle to trying to live side by side. He probably has a lot of regret that he didn't join the Union Army and aid in the fight to abolish slavery, and now that it actually happened, it has probably made him reevaluate his life. Haven't heard the song though, so I don't know if it makes a point of his racial tolerance transition
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