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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaybe if Lincoln offered to pay Lee to free his slaves...
Maybe if Lincoln offered to pay Lee to free his slaves he might have accepted his offer of command of the Union Army.
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Maybe if Lincoln offered to pay Lee to free his slaves... (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
May 2020
OP
Lee should have been hung along with many of the confederate West Point graduates
demosincebirth
Jun 2020
#3
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)1. That's gonna make some people mad!
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)2. Lee also hunted down John Brown.
demosincebirth
(12,537 posts)3. Lee should have been hung along with many of the confederate West Point graduates
BannonsLiver
(16,387 posts)4. Could not agree more
Traitors, every one of them. And Id add southern aristocrats who helped fund the war to the list of people who should have been on the gallows.
gladium et scutum
(806 posts)5. Lee could not sell the slaves to anyone, even Lincoln
He didn't own them. He managed them as one of the executors of the Custis estates. By the terms of the Custis will. the slaves had to be freed within five years of Custis's death, or sooner once the debts and legacies of the estate were paid.