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5 Fascinating Facts We Learned From Reddit This Week
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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.
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Civil War history and strange meat packaging techniques await you in this week’s issue of Reddit Facts.
What have you learned from the front page of the Internet lately?
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2013-01-20 21:47:01
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