Then lets look at known facts. Fact, prior to the war the Grants were living in Illinois. Slave ownership was illegal and there is no evidence at all that the Grants had slaves with them in Galena. In fact, it's been well documented that Grant freed the one slave he is known to have owned prior to moving out of Missouri. Fact, the Dent Family lived in Missouri, and Missouri amended her state Constitution in January 1865 to end slavery. Given those two facts I will ask once again, where did Mrs. Grant live where she was allowed to own slaves after January 1865?
I've seen references which document that the Dent family actually freed all their slaves early in 1863. Certainly it's been documented that when Mrs. Grant visited her husband around Petersburg she brought a hired German girl with her to tend to the Grant children. It's hard to believe that she would have done that had she still held her slaves.
It's funny I did some searching and can't find anything definite. One souce says that Julia says in her memoirs that she freed them with the Emancipation Proclamation. I do remember reading somewhere else that was not the case.
And, in truth, Grant, himself, was opposed to slavery.
Still it is ironic that Lee freed his slaves without compulsion and Julia Grant apparently did not.
actually you do KNOW & CHOOSE to LIE about it.
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