tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post2682271456718555859..comments2023-11-02T23:06:45.962-07:00Comments on of Battlefields and Bibliophiles: Michael Fellman and Intellectual Braverydwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-49312295095100019682013-01-07T18:29:14.486-08:002013-01-07T18:29:14.486-08:00Not sure if Fellman knew about Lee's slave led...Not sure if Fellman knew about Lee's slave ledgers. He should. <br /><br />Lee was not racists, as much as he was a sadist. He had slave girls tied up and whipped-- as he screamed at them. He sold children, or at least separated them deliberately from their mother.<br /><br />In fact, contrary to the fraudulent biography by Freeman, Lee not only did not free his wife's slaves, he continued to purchase more -- from bounty hunters. Apparently Lee even bought men women and children his hunters found in the North -- who were not ever his slaves, and may not have ever been anyone slaves.<br /><br />The real story of Lee will not be fully known until we get more acces to his slave ledgers - the records in his own hand, of his bounties, payments, and lists of slaves. <br /><br />Lee refused to obey VA court orders to free his wife's slaves, in fact, he went to court, or his lawyer did, DURING the Civil War, to fight their order than he obey the will. When Lee finally freed anyone, it was so late, that no one was buying them anyway. They were worthless.<br /><br />Essentially Lee was nothing like the myth. He seemed to enjoy whipping slaves, he was more of a sociopath than a man of principle.<br /><br />As far as his "devout" Christianity, Lee turned that off when he wrote sexually explicit letters to women, a habit he held his whole life, even after the Civil War. WHen he wrote his wife, he could wrap himself in Jesus, and justify his treatment of slaves, which she apparently questioned, by claiming God ordained not only slavery, but the torture (painful discipline). Pain, wrote Lee, was necessary for their instruction.<br /><br />Seekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10206503506011763393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-30089999250067589152012-06-13T13:14:29.216-07:002012-06-13T13:14:29.216-07:00Thanks, David. I remember that discussion on the C...Thanks, David. I remember that discussion on the CW Forum. It was amazing.Margaret Bloughnoreply@blogger.com