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
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?")
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)
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
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