Jumat, 16 Maret 2018

Robert E. Lee and Slavery

The general’s own words plainly state his view of the Peculiar Institution. As a biographer I am often asked which part of my subject’s story has been most difficult to explore. All historic figures have troubling aspects, of course, and the two with which I am most familiar, Clara Barton and Robert E. Lee, are …

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