Body Servant of General Robert E. Lee

 

William Mack Lee -- Body Servant of General Robert E. Lee.

He stayed with General Lee throughout the war and until the day Lee died in 1870.
Mack said of General Lee after his death "I was raised by one of the greatest men in the world. There was never one born of a woman greater than General Robert E. Lee, according to my judgment. All of his servants were set free ten years before the war, but all remained on the plantation until after the surrender."
General Lee left Mack $360 in his will, which Mack used to go to school and started 14 churches. He became an ordained Missionary Baptist minister in Washington, DC. 

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black confederates still live

black confederates still alive

https://www.theroot.com/black-supporters-of-the-confederate-flag-don-t-let-co-1790860372

women owned slaves too

women owned slaves too.

https://www.history.com/news/white-women-slaveowners-they-were-her-property

TRUTH !

the truth is

it was NOT about slavery !

CIVIL WAR NOT ABOUT SLAVERY !

"The War Between the States was not a noble war to abolish slavery, but instead was a war of conquest to require the Southern states to continue paying the taxes which paid for the federal government and to change the system of government given to us by our Founders and instead replace it with a strong national government thereby removing most of the political power from the states and the people."

"I saw in State Rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy . . . . Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization; and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo."

" . . . [T]he consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of the ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it."