>>5854063 PB

Exactly. Many southern Americans are wise to the fact

that Robert Lee freed his wife's inherited slaves and that Stonewall Jackson taught literacy and bible school to blacks. They also may know that Grant, though an excellent general, owned slaves.Many of us have rich, written family histories as American warriors going back our inception of the great nation we are. I have ancestors on both sides of the Civil War and with many non-slave owning Confederates that were in Missouri and subjected to similar fates as Bill Wilson, depicted as Josey Wales in Clint Eastwood's movie and Forrest Carter's novel. It was a horrible war and my ancestors there lost everything. There were many atrocities to southerners that have been erased from "Official" history books, no differently since time… the raid on Osceola, the killing of southern women in prison in Springfield, the raids, arson, theft and killing of elderly southerners by Red Legs and other non regular northern troops still reside in the memories of many southern Americans. Most southerners were not wealthy enough to have slaves, even if they had wanted. The truth can never be fully erased. There was good and bad on both sides and this is a division tactic- Alinsky 101 from Marxist shills to divide us.

>>5858873

I'm pretty sure that he freed them five years after Custis (Marys father) died. It was provided for in the will. Lee was horrified that turning them out was cruel, but he did it none the less. He was not in favor of slavery. The southern plantation oligarchs were little different than the robber barons from the north that relied on disproportion taxation to the south through the Morrill tarif of 1861. Rich man's war, poor man's fight… Slavery was a horrible blotch on our history. My ancestors from Missouri became very prosperous after the war, in Texas. My great great grandfather was actually a Confederate and an abolitionist. They had little love for plantation owners but had to fight to defend their homes and families. Missouri was a nasty place then and is relegated to nothingness in history books…

>>5858896

It nearly got me and then I realized this is what he/they is/are saying. You are exactly correct, IMHO.