Robert E Lee The Great Emancipator

[My Name Is Kate]

I don't know if Lee was trying to justify slavery or not, but I certainly wasn't. My point was: How bad were conditions in Africa at the time Lee made that statement? Was slavery being practiced there? If some black people were rounding up other black people and selling them into slavery, conditions were likely not too good, and 150 years later, they are still not too good.

(And if anyone said in this thread, that Lee was responsible for the Emancipation Proclamation, I missed it (OK, now I see it...post #22). The point of this thread (I think) was that Lee emancipated "his own" slaves voluntarily. Maybe he did see the writing on the wall, maybe he didn't.)