Then why is the Library of Congress lying? Why does the Museum of the Confederacy have the original copy of the manumission papers that Lee signed in December 1862 freeing the slaves inherited from his father-in-law? Is this a plot to besmirch Lee's memory?
there is much in the LOC that is false. Lee NEVER owned a slave, end of story. his wife (a "femme sole" under VA commonwealth law) received some elderly slaves in her late father's will and manumitted them-REL never owned a single slave, according to the Arlington County Tax Accessors records (& trust me if he had owned/inherited any slaves, the taxman would have gotten his pound of flesh!)- sorry you sources are wrong.
the Museum of the Confederacy is NOT esteemed by southrons, as it is and has been in damnyankee-apologist LIBERAL hands for >25 years.