Everyone knows that Lee was the executor of his father in law’s estate. Arlington House belonged to George Washington Parke Custis, George Washington’s heir.
But that isn’t what you said. You claimed that Lee was a slaveowner and an overseer.
Interestingly enough that description does fit George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and most every other early President besides the Adams, but neo-yankees are notably silent on that issue. Neo-yankee moralizing seems to begin only at 1860.
When I first read your post that I suspected that you were attempting to twist Lee’s role as executor of the Arlington estate into something that would suit your agenda. You’re predictable in your lack of truthfulness when it comes to the south.
Washington freed his slaves on his death. Jefferson, faced with the state making it illegal to free his slaves, paid them a salary, which practice was partly responsible for his dying in debt.
Lee owned slaves himself personally, not just administering his father in law’s estate.
I noted with interest today that Barky got sworn in while standing beneath the portrait of one of the above-named gentlemen (either Madison or, I think, probably Monroe) to be sworn in to his second fraudulent term of office.
Someone on his "historical correctness" police should have gone through the White House long ago to drive out all the profane images of the unclean, slave-owning Presidents. (James Knox Polk, who extended the United States to the Pacific Ocean under the banner of Manifest Destiny, was the last, I think.)
Obama should have been sworn in while standing under a portrait of that champion of humanity and honesty, Lyndon Johnson, instead. Or maybe Slick Willie.