Lee didn’t own any slaves. His wife inherited some from her father - just like Grant’s wife inherited some slaves from her father. Lee was the executor of his father in law’s will which called for all the slaves he passed down to his daughter to be emancipated once Arlington’s debts were paid off in a few years which is exactly what happened. Lee executed the will and freed all the slaves as the will called for.
Of course just as one would expect from PC Revisionists, they are massively historically ignorant and filled with hate for Southerners.
It really doesn't matter if REL owned a slave or two for family purposes at some time in his life. He came from a slave holding society. The endless screaming about slavery non pluses me. I realize it is just a shill by blacks to try and get ‘reparations’ and by cultural marxists to deligitimize US history. The mindless crap I hear white young people spouting is what is amazing. If you talk to them about the issues and antecedents of the WBTS they know nothing and just retreat into the ‘its about slavery ‘ mantra. I have gotten to where I point out a few statistics on the human costs of the war to Southerners white and black (vide ) about one in three white males in South Carolina seems to have been killed or died of disease or wounds during the war or it is very likely as many freedmen died from disease and epidemic illness both during the war in the wretched ‘contraband’ camps and in the immediate period after the end of the war as white casualties in the South from the war. I pose the question that was such massive destruction of both material culture and human beings justified by the outcome. What difference would it have made if slavery lasted another thirty or even in some places fifty years? This leaves the snowflakes stunned and I hope gives them something to ponder on.