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Fun facts about Robert E. Lee and the confederacy that the Left don't want you to think about.
- Freed his slaves in 1862, a year before the Emancipation Proclamation. And a year before Union General (and future president) Grant freed his.
- Lee wrote that "In this enlightened age there are few, I believe, but will acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil."
- Lee stated that he was "in favor of freeing all the slaves in the South, giving to each owner a bond to be the first paid by the Confederacy when its independence should be secured."
- 1 in 33 southerners owned slaves, and even then usually 1 to 4. The majority of slave labor was actually owned by wealthy northerners who mortgaged and controlled the vast plantations of the south.
- Talks about emancipation were underway in the south since the 1830's . In 1832 Virginia came within 1 vote of passing a law of Emancipation.
- The Confederate Constitution prohibited the importation of slaves. The Union had no such provisions.
- " By the will of the former master of Arlington, General Lee was obliged to assume the care of the servants at the old mansion for five years after the death of the owner, at which time they were to be free. When the stated time had expired, he came home from the field, at great personal inconvenience, to see that everything possible was done for the welfare of the Arlington servants. "
This is all information coming from historical works in the late 1800's and early 1900's, when the war was effectively contemporary. Its almost as though the victors are attempting to edit, censor, or oversimplify history in order to make themselves look better and make their opponents look worse.
I can't wait for 50 years from now when WWII was a war over "If killing jews was ok" or something equally insipid.