It is interesting. For a long time it was held that Lee hadn't owned slaves himself. Eventually when old records from Rockland County were being scanned and placed into electronic storage, they found a will of Robert E. Lee, of Arlington, Va. granting freedom to his slave Nancy, and her 5 children.
We don't know much more than that. We don't know whether the children were hers by him, or were hers by someone else.
That isn't revisionist. It is new information now readily available because of better formating. Of course some people will deny it, putting their fingers in their ears, and shouting Nanananananananaanan.
You know who I am talking about.
his WIFE received a FEW slaves from her parents, who REL promptly & UNLAWFULLY freed. it caused him no end of marital problems, as his wife KNEW they NEEDED the money that the sale would have brought into the home.
IF REL hadn't been who he was, he would have gotten in serious trouble for doing it too, as the slaves were the SOLE property of a "femme sole". this was, at that time, a CRIME!
free dixie,sw