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There were a lot of people, incl. the abolitionists, in the 1800s who knew slavery was evil and worked to end it. So miss me with this "he was a man of his time" argument. Were the abolitionists not people of their time as well?
If we should excuse Lee's being a slaver because it was somehow "OK for those times," why did white southern elites from the same circles as Lee make it illegal to circulate abolitionist material in the South? Or censor the mail? Or prohibit antislavery petitions in Congress?
Arguments like the ones Jesse makes here are so fucking tired. And his claim we critics aren't fit to lick Lee's boots--well, he seems to have the bootlicking taken care of already.
