Maybe if Lincoln offered to pay Lee to free his slaves...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Maybe if Lincoln offered to pay Lee to free his slaves he might have accepted his offer of command of the Union Army.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213517790

[bobbieinok]

1. That's gonna make some people mad!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Lee also hunted down John Brown.

[demosincebirth]

3. Lee should have been hung along with many of the confederate West Point graduates

[BannonsLiver]

4. Could not agree more

Traitors, every one of them. And I’d add southern aristocrats who helped fund the war to the list of people who should have been on the gallows.

[gladium et scutum]

5. Lee could not sell the slaves to anyone, even Lincoln

He didn't own them. He managed them as one of the executors of the Custis estates. By the terms of the Custis will. the slaves had to be freed within five years of Custis's death, or sooner once the debts and legacies of the estate were paid.