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re: Robert E. Lee has been misrepresented by regressive "historians"
Posted on 5/22/17 at 11:01 am to magildachunks
Posted on 5/22/17 at 11:01 am to magildachunks
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Lee never inherited the slaves
his wife did. who he shared a home with.
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and he didn't have a choice in freeing them.
actually, he very much did.
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He had to 5 years after his father in laws death
he could have freed them the day his father in law died but chose to keep them for 5 years until jan 1st 1863, the day the emancipation proclamation took effect.
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Posted on 5/22/17 at 11:05 am to monsterballads
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actually, he very much did.
I meant that him freeing them wasn't some great noble gesture on his part. He had to free them.
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