Were George Washington and Robert E. Lee really that different?

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1. Thought provoking.

It is always hard to judge people outside their historical context. However, on the question of the morality of slavery, the issue was much better defined in the time of Robert E. Lee than in was in the time of Washington. Washington and Lee are not the same because they lived in a different period of history. Each must be judged by the moral norms of the time in which they lived.