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.
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.