They locked up Lee’s personal papers for decades, and eventually let one very friendly historian look at them. Then, they locked them back up again. It was a friendly book in tone, but even it couldn’t’ hide the brutal realities of Lee’s slave trading
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(By papers, I mean a trove of his letters and documents that were literally found in an old steam trunk in 2002. He was a monster to the slaves he owned, of course.)
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Well, the incentives are REALLY one-sided. Why confess to a bunch of sins you don’t have to? So, I agree with you.
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“Slavery not that bad according to survey of over 1000 slave owners.”
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