No ships bringing ***** slaves to the United States of America flew the confederate flag. Ships bringing ***** slaves to the United States of America flew a version of the current U.S. flag that flies over the White House. The flags of the Southern Confederacy did not occupy the flagpoles of Manila, Quezon City and Cebu Island in 1898 but curiously a version of the stars & stripes (the flag that currently flies over the Executive Mansion & atop the rotunda of the U.S. capitol building) flew over the conquered archipelago nation known as the Philippines when U.S. forces slaughtered one in four citizens (including mothers & their children) in the course of routing Filipino insurgents, "terrorists" & partisans during the Spanish-American War of 1898; the war that necessitated The Philippine Archipelago Doctrine that allowed the U.S. to buy the Philippines from Spain for 20 million dollars. [The British savagely enslaved India for centuries yet no one demands that Brits abandon their union jack flag.]