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5 Fascinating Facts We Learned From Reddit This Week
1. Robert E. Lee believed slavery to be a "moral & political evil."
In an 1856 letter to his wife, the future Confederate general wrote:
"In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil in any Country."Howeer, the letter goes on to discuss a significantly less than enlightened view that black people are "immeasurably better off here than in Africa," and that the pain of slavery is "necessary for their instruction as a race."So there's that.Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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Civil War history and strange meat packaging techniques await you in this week's issue of Reddit Facts.
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