For example?
There were, however, several notable black slave owners at the time of the war.. His name escapes me at the moment but one notable one was in Louisiana.
And was this person also calling slavery an evil for whites?
With that in mind why do you suppose Lee fought for the Confederacy? It certainly wasn't to preserve slavery.
He fought because Virginia joined the rebellion. He chose state over country, which I think was a mistake.
For example?
It's interesting to note that Lee also supported his wife's efforts in setting up an illegal school for slaves at Arlington and freed his slaves in 1862 (about a year before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.)
More examples of the Founders views on slavery:
There were, however, several notable black slave owners at the time of the war.. His name escapes me at the moment but one notable one was in Louisiana.
And was this person also calling slavery an evil for whites?
Not relevant. I include the example of black slave owners to shed some light on 19th century thinking.
With that in mind why do you suppose Lee fought for the Confederacy? It certainly wasn't to preserve slavery.
He fought because Virginia joined the rebellion. He chose state over country, which I think was a mistake.
You're applying 21st century thinking to the 19th century. I'll leave you with this thought from Walter Williams:
Did states have a right to secede?
At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, James Madison rejected a proposal that would allow the federal government to suppress a seceding state. He said, "A Union of the States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a State would look more like a declaration of war than an infliction of punishment and would probably be considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound."
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