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While Lee did hold a lukewarm disapproval of slavery, he was not entirely pro-slavery either.

Regarding his character, he is both revered and respected by many.  [/quote]

when you think slavery was ordained by god, slaves benefit from being slaves (a line of thinking many like cliven bundy share to this day), and that only god has the answer to when they will be free....

that isn't lukewarm disapproval.

that isn't good character.

you are an idiot. [/quote]
NP. You need to realize the circumstances of the time. I've been to Africa. It's a big continent. Many places are shitholes. There is much genocode.  Africans sold Africans into slavery. So, his statement that they were better off is not too far from the truth. He was also raised to believe that slavery was normal. Slaves existed in the bible and it is not condemned. 
I am not racist or in favor of slavery. But you have to put things in historical perspective to understand. [/quote]

Ah yes, the historical perspective.  So were the abolitionists just ahead of their times?  Is this akin to the premature anti-fascists of the 1930s?  Only acceptable to oppose Hitler and Franco after the annexation of Sudetenland?  [/quote]
Most abolitionists came from the north - where there were no skaves. Northern a did not grow up seeing slavery as normal. It was easy for them to see the evil in it. If you were born in the south, from birth you were indoctrinated into slavery being normal.
Hitler murdering Jews is quite different. [/quote]

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