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To: artichokegrower

That sounds like something Robert E. Lee would say about slavery in Virginia.


2 posted on 06/21/2021 12:34:12 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Cecily

Indeed. Slavery was known as “the peculiar institution” which was a long tradition in the South (and the North).


8 posted on 06/21/2021 12:40:18 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: Cecily

More like Orval Faubus defending Jim Crow laws.

Lee was personally opposed to slavery and freed his.


40 posted on 06/21/2021 4:17:24 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Cecily
That sounds like something Robert E. Lee would say about slavery in Virginia.

Does it? Or is it more along the lines of you just wanting to bad-mouth the South for no reason, in an article that's about something different?

-- So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished.

-- In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil in any Country
45 posted on 06/22/2021 9:55:35 AM PDT by Svartalfiar
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