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To: 4yearlurker
Anybody could write anything on the back of one of the photos but it doesn't make it so. Folks were marketing and bullsh!ting folks back then too. I think the buying party payed a bit to much for the photo.

I saw a photo of a park service person holding the photo up with a building at Arlington in the background and you could see that it was clearly the same building as in the photo. It is distinctive. So perhaps they are not Lee's slaves but if not there are only a couple of other possibilities: they are slaves from before Lee took over the property, they were freed slaves shortly after the war (which is almost certainly the same as saying "Lee's slaves") or they are from the slave period and are on Arlington but they weren't Lee's. or it's a modern fake

Personally I think the most likely scenario of a photo of slaves on Lee's estate and marked "Lee's slaves" is that they are indeed Lee's slaves.

39 posted on 10/13/2014 7:12:42 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: pepsi_junkie

or maybe they were tourists after the war for a photo?


45 posted on 10/13/2014 7:19:14 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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