Wednesday, August 31, 2022

THE MYTH OF THE KINDLY GENERAL LEE

 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/

The myth of Lee goes something like this: He was a brilliant strategist and devoted Christian man who abhorred slavery and labored tirelessly after the war to bring the country back together.

Lee was a slave owner—his own views on slavery were explicated in an 1856 letter that is often misquoted to give the impression that Lee was some kind of abolitionist. In the letter, he describes slavery as “a moral & political evil,” but goes on to explain that:

The argument here is that slavery is bad for white people, good for black people, and most important, better than abolitionism; emancipation must wait for divine intervention. That black people might not want to be slaves does not enter into the equation; their opinion on the subject of their own bondage is not even an afterthought to Lee.

Lee’s cruelty as a slave master was not confined to physical punishment. In Reading the Man, the historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor’s portrait of Lee through his writings, Pryor writes that “Lee ruptured the Washington and Custis tradition of respecting slave families” by hiring them off to other plantations, and that “by 1860 he had broken up every family but one on the estate, some of whom had been together since Mount Vernon days.” The separation of slave families was one of the most unfathomably devastating aspects of slavery, and Pryor wrote that Lee’s slaves regarded him as “the worst man I ever see.”


13 comments:

  1. It’s evident you are not very well educated of regarding confederate army. Many Jews served proudly at confederate army and many of them owned slaves as many people did owned slaves. Many blacks,white so as Jews owned slaves. Your expertise is a joke!

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  2. nonsense! There are also Jewish pedohiles, adulterers. murderers etc - So what?
    Are you trying to claim that confederates are better Jews

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  3. Enough about the Chareidim.
    The shameful part of our history is that there were many Rabbis who supported slavery as the "curse of Cain". The supposedly great and wise Rabbi Avigdor Miller even wrote that Lincoln deserved to be shot because he freed the slaves and that was against God's will.

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  4. As I said before, Trump and friends are not trying to bring back slavery. But the Squad/left are not caring about Chinese ethnic genocide of Uyguir muslims, or slave labour. Campus racism is about Jews and whites. "white privilege" is the battle cry of the left. China is not a concern for them.

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  5. Miller said that about everyone - about Kent State student rioters, they deserved to be shot. John Lennon - he deserved to be shot (why, because of his music or his interracial marriage to Yoko?)

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  6. “Lee was a slave owner” Hey, our holy Torah last week’s parsha ראה discusses the release of slaves: (Deuteronomy 15)
    “12If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, he shall serve thee six years; and in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. 13And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty; 14thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress; of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. 15And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee; therefore I command thee this thing to-day. 16And it shall be, if he say unto thee: ‘I will not go out from thee’; because he loveth thee and thy house, because he fareth well with thee; 17then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through hisear and into the door, and he shall be thy bondman for ever. And also unto thy bondwoman thou shalt do likewise. 18It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou lettest him go free from thee; for to the double of the hire of a hireling hath he served thee six years; and the LORD thy God will bless thee in all that thou doest.”
    Allow me update 22A184 YU v Pride. September 1, 2022: I. A STATUTE THAT INTERFERES WITH THE INTERNAL GOVERNANCE OF A RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION VIOLATES THE FIRST
    AMENDMENT............................................................................................. 11
    II. THE ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE PROHIBITS LEGISLATION THAT
    GIVES PREFERENCE TO A PARTICULAR WORLDVIEW TO THE
    DETRIMENT OF RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE.............................................. 13
    Our worldview on this blog Dass Torah is against same sex marriage. I see quote terrible rulings: “The petitioner in 303 Creative, LLC v. Elenis, No. 21-476, has been ordered, because of a local public accommodations law, to express herself in a same-sex marriage with a created web design notwithstanding her religious principles prohibiting such participation.”
    Whew, I pray Judge Sotomayor rules against Pride.

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  7. Wow so you think he was a Jew? Or that the South observed the Torah?
    Or perhaps you think slavery was a noble institution?

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  8. I recall reading that some plantation owners were Yehudim, and their slaves had the status of Eved Kna'ani.
    These slaves were NOT required to be freed in the seventh year.

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  9. Your behavior is definitely outrageous. Your expertise is linked to harass and twist history facts.
    I don’t claim anyone is better over anyone else. Your opinions goes against historical facts. Many of Jews was proud being at confederate army. Many Jews, so as many whites or blacks owned slaves. It was nothing unusual. You should show respect to fellow Jews instead bashing and twisting facts.

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  10. Wow so that makes it Jewish
    There are Jews who proudly commit adultery etc etc so what does that have ti do with it being correct - that is also historical fact!

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  11. You are such a bully. You as a Jew should judge favorably and not being abusive and harassing ass and very egoistic and narcissistic.
    That was no sin to be part of confederate army. Stop judging fellow Jews without any evidence they sin. You should stop sin actually against your fellow Jew of Lashon Hara.
    Those who purposely sin can repent and return back to Hashem. It’s not my and not your business being so judgmental. You actually spread Lashon Hara. I have nothing else to say about your post! Love your fellow Jew!

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  12. Right on! (Deuteronomy 22) “5A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment; for whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.”
    דברים פרשת כי תצא פרק כב פסוק ה
    לֹא יִהְיֶה כְלִי גֶבֶר עַל אִשָּׁה וְלֹא יִלְבַּשׁ גֶּבֶר שִׂמְלַת אִשָּׁה כִּי תוֹעֲבַת יְקֹוָק אֱלֹהֶיךָ כָּל עֹשֵׂה אֵלֶּה:
    רש"י דברים פרשת כי תצא פרק כב פסוק ה
    לא יהיה כלי גבר על אשה - שתהא דומה לאיש כדי שתלך בין האנשים, שאין זו אלא לשם ניאוף:
    ולא ילבש גבר שמלת אשה - לילך ולישב בין הנשים.
    Sapirstein Chumash: “The question of whether it is forbidden to wear garments of the opposite sex without intent to commit immoral behavior is a matter of dispute. Rashi is of the opinion that it is permitted...”

    Indeed the Pride side in Yeshiva U v Pride wants men students at YU to dress and look like a sexy ladies in violation of Deuteronomy 22:5. Bravo the wide support for YU at SCOTUS 22A184. YU failed so far using the legal strategy of an order to show cause = issued by the court that a party appear in court on a specified date and time to give reasons (show cause) why an order requested by the opposing party should not be made.

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