(08-14-2017, 03:05 PM).The Drifter Wrote:

(08-14-2017, 02:35 PM)rollerjag Wrote: General Lee was a traitor and a slave owner, a larger than life statue honoring him at a state university is not appropriate.

Lee was NOT a slave owner, now Union General Grant was, and he didn't free them until after the constitution was changed.

As for being a traitor, Wrong again, he was loyal to His Home State of Virginia, and the South Didn't want to take over the entire USA, they just wanted to seccede and form their own little chuck of the earth. It was The Union Forces that invaded the south

Re-read your history

Read history, not just your own. His wife inherited her father's plantation, including slaves. Her father's will stipulated they be emancipated unless they were needed, but at any rate after 5 years. Lee did not free them until he was compelled by a judge's decree. During those 5 years he treated the slaves more cruelly than his father-in-law, rupturing families by sending family members off to neighboring plantations. When two slaves escaped and were captured, he ordered them whipped and their wounds washed with brine. Source

The myth of Robert E. Lee as a kindly, benevolent man only loyal to his beloved Virginia is horse [BLEEP]. He believed slavery was a necessary evil, a benevolent Christian duty owed to black people.

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