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re: Robert E. Lee has been misrepresented by regressive "historians"
Posted on 5/22/17 at 7:20 am to Parmen
Posted on 5/22/17 at 7:20 am to Parmen
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Man never fought for slavery, only for his home state Virginia.
Same thing. Lee couldn't support Virginia without supporting slavery.
Slavery and Virginia were inextricably linked. By 1861 Virginia's largest industry was exporting slaves to other states.
"The importation of slaves was officially prohibited by Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution in 1808, but it had little impact. Slave smuggling was common. Virginia became the center of the slave trade and shipped Virginia-born slaves to fast-growing states along the eastern coast, and later in the Deep South. Natural increase accounted for practically all of the slave-population growth in the United States."
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Virginia's economy was dependent upon slavery. That was the State's Right that Lee was fighting for.
The -best- thing you can say about Lee is that he was a man of the past, when we always need men of the future - true heroes like Lincoln, Grant and Sherman.
This post was edited on 5/22/17 at 7:23 am
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Posted on 5/22/17 at 7:37 am to WhiskeyPapa
You'll have a hard time convincing people that Sherman was a hero. He was an excellent military commander, but he oversaw and committed some of the most terrible actions in american warfare. Sherman would be probably most accurately described the greatest tool of destruction the USA ever unleashed within its own borders.
Posted on 5/22/17 at 10:13 am to WhiskeyPapa
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The -best- thing you can say about Lee is that he was a man of the past, when we always need men of the future - true heroes like Lincoln, Grant and Sherman.
Both Grant and Sherman were slave owners. In fact, Sherman kept his slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation. When asked about this Sherman replied that good help was hard to find.
Lee had inherited slaves but freed them at the beginning of the war.
Grant and Sherman were war criminals, lucky for them their side won the war.
Posted on 5/22/17 at 2:12 pm to WhiskeyPapa
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Robert E. Lee has been misrepresented by regressive "historians"
quote:
Man never fought for slavery, only for his home state Virginia.
Same thing. Lee couldn't support Virginia without supporting slavery.
At the end of the day, I always ask the same question. Was ending slavery 20-30 years early worth the lives of a million men?
This post was edited on 5/22/17 at 2:14 pm
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