(06-09-2020, 10:38 AM)The Drifter Wrote: Erasing History...... Those that FAIL to LEARN from history are DOOMED to repeat it

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(06-09-2020, 10:37 AM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote: A New Day Is Upon Us --- I'm most certain the Germans don't have statues of Hitler erected in Berlin so why should cities in the South have Andrew Jackson or Robert E Lee.  Sucks to lose.

I'm sure someone will chime in that Abe Lincoln had slaves, but ultimately truth be known that Abe transformed and ultimately played a key role in freeing slaves.  I don't recall Jackson or Lee freeing any slaves.  Perhaps, losing battles and being killed by the Union Army cut their time short.

Lee didn't own slaves during the war, Unlike Union General U.S. Grant where ot took a constitutional amendment before he freed his slaves

As usual, you are wrong. Gen. Grant married into a slave owning family. He failed at farming, left it but kept one slave that he freed in 1859, BEFORE the war.

Robert E. Lee also married into a slave owning family, and his wife inherited her father's estate when he died in 1857.  Her father's will stipulated that the slaves be freed within 5 years of his death. Lee had to be taken to court before honoring his father-in-law's wishes.

There is also evidence of Lee's cruelty. 2 slaves ran away, when captured they were scourged. Lee didn't feel this was punishment enough, so he ordered that brine be poured on their wounds

The statues in his honor were the real attempts to rewrite history.

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