[James Ewell Brown Stuart]

Of course, because all Southerners are Simon Legree in disguise. We like nothing than to make our slaves hoe the cotton and pick the corn while we drink pink lemonade from the shelter of the veranda and discuss how we are going to usurp the Constitution by seceding from the Union. I thought everyone knew that. Didn't you get the secret pamphlet and the decoder ring that comes with it.

The will provided for all of Custis' slaves to be emancipated, "the said emancipation to be accomplished in not exceeding five years from the time of my decease."

So, they were promised their freedom, but Custis gave his executors up to five years to see it done.

Ah, the cheap shot designed to cause me to feel shame. Right on time too.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

So, they were promised their freedom, but Custis gave his executors up to five years to see it done.

Hey, you're the one who said that the five years was for training them in business so that they could support themselves.

Ah, the cheap shot designed to cause me to feel shame

Why would you feel shame over something Robert E. Lee did almost 150 years ago?

[laotzu]

while we drink pink lemonade from the shelter of the veranda and discuss how we are going to usurp the Constitution

Har!!(shooting lemonade out of my nose) You & I are going to get along just fine.

If my boy Toby were here, he would laugh too.