Lee was a slave owner—his own views on slavery were explicated in
The claim that Robert E. Lee did not own slaves is often paired with the
Lee's family held slaves, and he himself was at best ambiguous on the
One day in January, a few years before the Civil War, Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee did oppose secession and made statements later in the war on his reservations about slavery. · Still, he personally owned slaves ...
And that was what Robert E. Lee did: He acquiesced.
Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate States Army in the Civil War,
When the overseer refused, the county constable was called in to execute the order. The portrait that Norris paints of his master is very different from the image of ...
Lee accepted "the extinction of slavery" provided for by the Thirteenth ...
Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia remained in Pennsylvania.