Re: OK Libtards.. Which one of you is going to steal a school bus and ram it into this?
Posted by:
Fred Sanford
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Date: August 16, 2017 10:28AM
Wreck Grant's Tomb Wrote:
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> > > > Jefferson was a nation builder. R.E.Lee was
> a
> > > > traitor who took up arms against his
> country.
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> > > See
> > > > the difference?
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> > > Jefferson was a slave owner.
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> > > Lee was not.
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> > > See the difference?
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> > What? Lee inherited slaves from his Father in
> > Law. Those slave were to be freed, according
> to
> > Lee's Father in Law's will. RE Lee went against
> > his father in law's wishes, and kept them as
> > slaves.
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> Hey, what a coincidence...
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> Prior to the Civil War Grant lived with his wife
> Julia and their four children in St. Louis,
> Missouri, at his father-in-law’s White Haven
> plantation estate from 1854 until 1859. At some
> point during this experience Grant obtained a
> slave named William Jones.
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> How, when, and why Grant obtained a slave are all
> unknown, although Grant’s mentioning of
> Frederick Dent suggests that he most likely
> purchased Jones from his Father-in-law (Grant also
> had a brother-in-law named Frederick Dent who was
> serving with the U.S. Army in the western frontier
> at this time.
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> Grant’s wife Julia grew up in a household that
> benefited from slave labor, a fact that Julia
> acknowledged and romanticized in her own Personal
> Memoirs. Julia claimed in her Memoirs that her
> father gave her legal title to four slaves to be
> used for her benefit, and no competent Grant
> historian would doubt that she and the entire
> Grant family benefited from their labor during
> their St. Louis years.
You are correct, coincidence.
in her book "Reading the Man, Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through his Writings," noted historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor wrote “Lee ruptured the Washington and Custis tradition of respecting slave families,” by hiring them off to other plantations, and that “by 1860 he had broken up every family but one on the Arlington estate, some of whom had been together since Mount Vernon days.” The separation of slave families was one of the most unfathomably devastating aspects of slavery, and Pryor wrote that Lee’s slaves regarded him as “the worst man I ever see.”
Lee’s heavy hand towards slaves on the Arlington plantation, Pryor wrote, "nearly led to a slave revolt, in part because the enslaved had been expected to be freed upon their previous master’s death, and Lee had engaged in a dubious legal interpretation of his will in order to keep them as his property, one that lasted until a Virginia court forced him to free them."
Records show when two of Lee's Arlington slaves escaped and were recaptured. Lee either beat them himself or ordered the overseer to "lay it on well." Wesley Norris, one of the slaves who was whipped, later recalled that “not satisfied with simply lacerating our naked flesh, Gen. Lee then ordered the overseer to thoroughly wash our backs with brine, which was done.”
As a matter of fact, during his invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia enslaved free blacks and brought them back to the South as property.
And speaking of General Grant, as the revered historian James McPherson recounts in the book "Battle Cry of Freedom," in October of 1864, General Lee proposed an exchange of prisoners with General Grant. “Grant agreed, on condition that blacks be exchanged ‘the same as white soldiers.’” Lee’s response to Grant was “negroes [sic] belonging to our citizens are not considered subjects of exchange and were not included in my proposition.”
Lee was a slave owner, Lee was a believer of "White Man's Burden," and Lee tortured slaves.