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Did Lee Whip His Slaves? – Abbeville Institute
Notwithstanding currently popular interpretations, there is no convincing evidence that Robert E. Lee ever whipped slaves. The argument that he ordered the flogging of three runaways in 1859 took on a new life after Elizabeth Brown Pryor published Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters in 2007. Contrary to her implications, she provides no...
Few figures in American history have generated as much debate in our time as Confederate General Robert E. Lee. His legacy is today both celebrated and cursed across the United States, where his presence in public, whether through statues, speeches or other odes, is synonymous with the great cultural changes and debates the country is going through in recent years. However, in his own time, Lee was seen as a great man by the people of both the N…
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