Wow!
Strong voice for a guy 101 years old.
Uncommon wisdom and intelligence on display, says a lot about how people today are actually becoming more stupid, despite having free instant unlimited access to information on almost any subject at hand via the internet.
Lee’s Father in law had freed his slaves, Lee was talking about doing the same.
Then came that Lincoln and the Federal Tyrants from DC, to slaughter the grandsons of the FOUNDERS!!
Still oppressing our freedom and stealing almost everything not nailed down under penalty of imprisonment to this day.
“says a lot about how people today are actually becoming more stupid, despite having free instant unlimited access to information on almost any subject at hand via the internet.”
Used to be a person could be informed, uninformed, or misinformed.
Now we have to worry about being disinformed, having our opinions manipulated by fake news.
“Lee’s Father in law had freed his slaves, Lee was talking about doing the same.”
Other than a personal servant the only slaves that Lee “had” were the ones that his wife had inherited upon her father’s death in 1857- her father being Martha Washington’s grandson, the slaves being descended from her slaves, which unlike those of George Washington weren’t freed upon George Washington’s death.
The will of George Washington Parke Custis requested that all of his slaves be freed within five years of his passing. Lee was executor of the estate, and Arlington was heavily in debt. If the debt wasn’t paid off then the creditors could claim the slaves as payment. So Lee worked the slaves or rented them out in order to pay off the debt, which was done by 1862. The Custis-Lee slaves were then set free, about a year before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.
When I was a boy growing up Arlington VA we had a school janitor who told me that when his mother was very young she had been a personal servant of Mrs Lee, a connection with history of which he was proud. I bet his family have to keep that to themselves today.