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To: longnshort who wrote (1233034)	5/25/2020 4:45:50 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Respond to of 1577835

“I Ulysses S Grant of the City and County of St. Louis in the State of Missouri, for diverse good and valuable considerations me hereunto moving, do hereby emancipate and set free from Slavery my negro man William, sometimes called William Jones(Jones)of Mullatto complexion, aged about thirty-five years, and about five feet seven inches in height and being the same slave purchased by me of Frederick Dent-And I do hereby manumit, emancipate & set free said William from slavery forever.” March 1859 Lee was a white supremacist who strongly believed that God wanted blacks to be slaves. During his life, he was notorious for his cruelty to his slaves. Revisionist Southern apologists love the false narrative that Lee inherited his slaves and then set them free. Franklin Veaux, Professional Writer Answered August 18, 2017 Southern historical revisionists love to whitewash Lee by ascribing to him all kinds of noble virtues and characteristics he never had. Lee was a white supremacist who strongly believed that God wanted blacks to be slaves. During his life, he was notorious for his cruelty to his slaves. Revisionist Southern apologists love the false narrative that Lee inherited his slaves and then set them free. This didn't happen; it's one of those…oh, what are they called, those things that are the opposite of the truth? Lies! That's right. One of those lies propagated by Southern apologists and people too naive to read history. In reality, his ancestors freed their slaves in their will. Lee disputed the will and kept the slaves anyway. He did not free them; he was forced to release them by the Virginia court, which ruled against him in the dispute over the will. Another popular opposite-of-the-truth alternative “facts” repeated by Southern apologists and those who naively believe Southern apologists without fact-checking is that 30,000 slaves or former slaves fought in Lee’s army. This is absolutely not supported by fact; the historical record does show a tiny number of slaves or former slaves fighting in the Confederate army, but this number is only about 10% of what the historical revisionists claim, and it includes all of the Confederate armies during the entire civil war, not just Lee’s army. Robert E. Lee was a cruel white supremacist slaveowner who truly and sincerely believed slavery was Divinely justified and who took up arms in support of traitors.