The claim that Robert E. Lee did not own slaves is often paired with the claim
How long their subjugation may be necessary is known & ordered by a wise
And that was what Robert E. Lee did: He acquiesced.
One day in January, a few years before the Civil War, Robert E. Lee
Wesley Norris' account as it appeared in the National Anti-Slavery Standard in 1866.
Robert E. Lee because of a story that involved the severe beating of children
eventually freed in a general way only at some
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After Lee's death in 1870, Frederick Douglass, the former fugitive slave who had become
What were Lee's real feelings about the Confederacy and slavery?