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Originally Posted by COLTempleton
What people may not realize is that the North actually asked Lee to fight for them. Also, Lee did not have slaves and was against slavery.
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Lee lived with his family and they DID have slaves. He was not for slavery, he was for Virginia - which wanted to maintain their status quo, which was to continue slavery. He was not an abolitionist. In addition, he felt that blacks were inferior sub-humans, and their lives could only be better now that they were on the North American continent, and that perhaps with enough time and discipline, they might evolve to be civilized humans.