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To: stand watie
Here is a link to a Library of Congress website. It talks of some slaves that Lee freed in the 1850's and whose passage to Liberia he paid for. Obviously he got some money from somewhere if he could not only own slaves but afford to manumit them and pay their way back to Africa.
263 posted on 12/14/2001 10:29:52 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
wrong answer. REL never owned at single slave-even the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War agrees with that AND they are NO FAN of Lee.
270 posted on 12/17/2001 9:11:47 AM PST by stand watie
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