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To: miss marmelstein
Didn’t Lee urge Davis to end slavery to get that monkey off the Confederacy’s back?

No. Lee was mildly opposed to slavery at best.

16 posted on 07/10/2015 10:29:29 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

“So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interests of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this, as regards Virginia especially, that I would cheerfully have lost all I have lost by the war, and have suffered all I have suffered, to have this object attained.”

“In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil in any Country.”

General Robert E Lee.


20 posted on 07/10/2015 10:39:09 AM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: DoodleDawg

Lee freed his own slaves a good 10 years before the war began. Many of them continued to live with him long after the war ended & all slaves had been freed.

People on all sides try to frame that era according to modern times’ society, but it’s comparing apples & oranges. It’s sad & frustrating that people are so incurious, stubborn, self righteous, & willfully ignorant. Few people (it seems) can even fathom a time they haven’t experienced.
They should just stay out of it if they can’t do any better than that. (Sorry if that’s blunt.)


25 posted on 07/10/2015 10:45:24 AM PDT by KGeorge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground)
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To: DoodleDawg

You are NOT an objective source.


28 posted on 07/10/2015 10:49:48 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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