But don’t miss the fact that no Republicans owned slaves.
Historical trivia that is meaningless. The Republican party as is known today was formed in 1854. The Democrat Party is much older and therefore has a much larger number of potential slave holders for that reason. It is just as specious an argument to say “General Grant owned slaves” (and he did, by virtue of marriage— ie. his wife’s family slaves) as it is to claim General Lee owned slaves (he did— they were Mary Custis Lee’s inherited slaves from her father George Washington Parke Custis. Many republicans to this day have slave ownership in family history, as well as being descended from indentured servants for life... so this is sophistry to try and state such an absolute.