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Lee did much much more than "defend" slavery.   For 150 years, we have been taught nonsense about the Confederacy.   You have to read the newspapers, books, documents  and letters from that period, including Lee's letters.In the book "Reading the Man" by Elizabeth Pryor, a staunch defender  of Lee, she tries hard to keep the halo on Lee's head, but admits astonishing things she found in Lee's papers.  There is no question whatsoever, she writes, that Lee had girls as young as 13 years old tortured (whipped), incredibly, she justifies that by saying the "slaves tested  Lee".What did the young woman do that justified her torture?   She ran away with her baby.  Why did she run away?  Because Lee was going to sell her baby, and did, when she was caught.   Lee paid 6 times his normal bounty to get this particular girl back -- and kept personal track of the searches for  her, in his own handwritten account books.  He was obsessed with getting her back, even though many of his slaves escaped ( and this was BEFORE the civil war, not during).Lee not only had her tortured, he personally stood by screaming at her during her torture. What was he screaming ?   "Hit her harder -- hit  her harder".   Lee could not get the first overseer to whip the girl, he refused.   So he hired another guy to whip her, and screamed at  the victim during the torture.   Then, after  the torture he sold her child.Lee was an unusually mean slave owner, contrary to what you have heard.  Most of his slaves detested him, and said he "was the meanest man we ever saw", which is quite a charge, since they saw many mean white men.    Lee  did favor certain slaves,  gave them the best shacks to sleep in, gave them old clothes and more food.   That was typical of slave owners, to reward some, and punish others.Lee wrote that God intended slavery to be painful -- that pain was necessary for their instruction, and he had a whipping post installed at his plantation, and used it .No one dares comment on this, but where did all these light colored slave girls come from?  What about the white looking children, born to the light colored slaves?   The slave child Lee was obsessed to get back, was as white looking as any child you ever saw -- her picture is in the book I mentioned above.   Someone impregnated those slave girls, someone WHITE. And someone white impregnated their mothers, too.   In fact, millions of slaves were mulatto, partly white.Now, can you imagine what Southern historians would say if they found LIncoln had hand written account books that showed he was obsessed about getting certain slave girls and their babies back?  And that Lincoln personally kept obsessive track of their possible whereabouts, and gave very high bounties for certain girls?       Southern historians skip over this about Lee.   The bottom line is this -- everything you THINK you know about Lee and the history of Confederacy, you learned from people pushing nonsense.     Read the books, letters, documents, and newspapers of the time.  What  I relate about is only the tip of the iceberg.