>>While Lee disagreed with slavery in an abstract sense, he held views similar to his pro-slavery contemporaries and criticized abolitionists of his day.
File this away for the people who are “personally” opposed to abortion (in an abstract can’t really fathom it sense) but criticize those are against aborting kids. “I’m pro-choice, really, although I wouldn’t have one myself, y’see...”
So, it looks to me that Lee did indeed oppose slavery.