Lee did not own slaves, did he??
He did for most of his life, both his own and those his wife was given or inherited.
“Lee did not own slaves, did he??”
Was that Kool Aid your favorite flavor?
Why does that matter? Slavery existed on this earth in almost every society since the dawn of history.
It was the United States and England who rid the world of most of it.
Lee happened to be born into a world that sanctioned slavery. He fought for his state, not slavery.
I don't know whether he himself owned slaves, but he was not an abolitionist, because he believed abolitionism would lead to civil war. But he wanted slavery to end. He wrote as much in a letter in 1856:
"There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil." After the war, he was notable in pushing for the racial integration of the Episcopal Church. I don't know when that finally occurred. He died in 1870.
His wife inherited some slaves. Quite a few, I think.
He did, but I believe not very many. His wife may have freed them at some point during the War, I can’t quite remember.
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Yes he did.