The last slave Lee’s had control of, was freed in December of 1862. Hardly “years before the war began.”
OK, point taken. However, was that the behavior of some sort of hard-bitten adherent of the fictional “Slave Power” that all these marxist-educated historical illiterates prattle on about on these threads? No, it wasn’t.
Speaking of freeing slaves, let’s turn to the Union and Ulysses S. Grant. What was the disposition of his slaves? And, yes, they were his under the law of that time, not his wife’s.
This cut and dried, north good, south bad, abolitionist vs. slavers, black and white history is fiction. It was far more complicated than that and I continue to be surprised that so many FReepers continue to fall for it.
Read, for goodness sake. It’s not as if it’s difficult to access these historical materials anymore, so there’s just no excuse to remain indoctrinated.