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To: Tribune7
I think one of the great ironies of history is that the Lee family freed its slaves and the Grant family didn't.

Ya got that backwards.

136 posted on 02/11/2007 5:39:14 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

Nope. Lee freed his slaves before the Emancipation Proclamation. Grant's wife still had her slaves after the Civil War ended.


140 posted on 02/11/2007 6:14:40 AM PST by Tribune7 (A bleeding heart does nothing but ruin the carpet.)
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