Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Kozy

Oddly, I don’t think General Lee owned slaves while he was a general.


4 posted on 08/23/2017 12:21:44 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: AppyPappy

Like Washington, they were his wife’s slaves, which were dowry and therefore could not legally be freed. Nonetheless, he singed a document of manumission in 1862.


8 posted on 08/23/2017 12:22:52 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: AppyPappy

>Oddly, I don’t think General Lee owned slaves while he was a general.<<

He never “owned” slaves. FWIU he inherited some slaves but they had already been freed.


9 posted on 08/23/2017 12:23:02 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The UK has no death penalty, unless you are an 11 month old infant with no arrest history)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: AppyPappy

What kind of car did the General Lee generally drive?


85 posted on 08/23/2017 12:58:16 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: AppyPappy; TBP

http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/leewilliam/lee.html

William Mack Lee, a cook and body servant.


113 posted on 08/24/2017 6:59:30 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson