rumitoid

Lee’s cruelty as a s***emaster was not confined to physical punishment. In Reading the Man, the historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor’s portrait of Lee through his own writings, Pryor writes that “Lee ruptured the Washington and Custis tradition of respecting s***e families,” by hiring them off to other plantations, and that “by 1860 he had broken up every family but one on the estate, some of whom had been together since Mount Vernon days.” The separation of s***e families was one of the most unfathomably devastating aspects of s***ery, and Pryor wrote that Lee’s s***es regarded him as “the worst man I ever see.”

The trauma of rupturing families lasted lifetimes for the ens***ed—it was, as my colleague Ta-Nehisi Coates described it, “a kind of murder.” After the war, thousands of the emancipated searched desperately for kin lost to the market for human flesh, fruitlessly for most. In Reconstruction, the historian Eric Foner quotes a Freedmen’s Bureau agent who notes of the emancipated, “in their eyes, the work of emancipation was incomplete until the families which had been dispersed by s***ery were reunited.”

Lee’s heavy hand on the Arlington plantation, Pryor writes, nearly led to a s***e revolt, in part because the ens***ed had been expected to be freed upon their previous master’s death, and Lee had engaged in a dubious legal interpretation of his will in order to keep them as his property, one that lasted until a Virginia court forced him to free them.

When two of his s***es escaped and were recaptured, Lee either beat them himself or ordered the overseer to "lay it on well." Wesley Norris, one of the s***es who was whipped, recalled that “not satisfied with simply lacerating our naked flesh, Gen. Lee then ordered the overseer to thoroughly wash our backs with brine, which was done.”

4430 Loc: Little Egypt ** Southern Illinory

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Who is the author ?

Carol Kelly

WRONG! R.E.LEE never, I repeat, never owned s***es, much less abused them. You owe a debt of apology for your stupidity.

Carol Kelly

[quote=Carol Kelly]WRONG! R.E.LEE never, I repeat, never owned s***es, much less abused them. You owe a debt of apology for your stupidity. They can write anything, but what you posted is someone’s fiction.

Mike Easterday

You are a fraud! Robert E. Lee never owned s***es!He joined the Confederate Army because he didn't want to fight his home state of Virginia.

NanaMother1

Balderdash! Lee refused to fight against his beloved home state. He opposed s***ery! Get your facts straight.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Lee didn't own s***es. If he hired them, he paid them and that probably infuriated s***e owners.

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

This was taken from a book written by Elizabeth Brown Pryor (born March 1951 and died 2015). She has written other books about historical figures such as George Washington, Lincoln and others. She is a good writer, but she is not historically correct and her references are either misquoted or does not exist. In this book she attacks Robert E. Lee (book title: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Personal Letters) using 3 chapters to paint him as evil. I would recommend that you get it from your library, really not worth the $24.00.

PLT Sarge Loc: Alabama

I was going to reply but others stated the facts. I would suggest that a person do their own study of a person or issue. Then form their own opinions.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

I thought Lee was dead!

rumitoid

Lol, not worth replying to.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

My Great Grand Pappy was named after Robert E Lee. This is the first I heard of him being a cruel s***e master. I must politely object to this accusation

rumitoid

2 freaking funny.

rumitoid

I would recommend that you follow my other five links to find the t***h.

rumitoid

Not to Trump and White Nationalists.He is the embodiment of the supposed glorious "Lost Cause," that he lost by bad strategy.