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<blockquote data-quote="Sportello" data-source="post: 1714040" data-attributes="member: 55299"><p>Thank you. I'm very familiar with that.</p><p></p><p>I know there are big words in the article, but the slaves were not Lee's. They were Custis's. Lee was the executor of the estate. The slaves belonged to the estate, not Lee, and Lee freed them in accordance to the wishes of Custis.</p><p></p><p><em>In his will, George Washington Parke Custis stipulated that all the Arlington slaves should be freed upon his death if the estate was found to be in good financial standing or within five years otherwise. When Custis died in 1857, Robert E. Lee—the executor of the estate—determined that the slave labor was necessary to improve Arlington's financial status. The Arlington slaves found Lee to be a more stringent taskmaster than his predacessor. Eleven slaves were “hired out” while others were sent to the Pamunkey River estates. In accordance with Custis's instructions, Lee officially freed the slaves on December 29, 1862.</em></p><p></p><p>Thank you for proving my point, and actually reading real history, even if you didn't understand what you read.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sportello, post: 1714040, member: 55299"] Thank you. I'm very familiar with that. I know there are big words in the article, but the slaves were not Lee's. They were Custis's. Lee was the executor of the estate. The slaves belonged to the estate, not Lee, and Lee freed them in accordance to the wishes of Custis. [I]In his will, George Washington Parke Custis stipulated that all the Arlington slaves should be freed upon his death if the estate was found to be in good financial standing or within five years otherwise. When Custis died in 1857, Robert E. Lee—the executor of the estate—determined that the slave labor was necessary to improve Arlington's financial status. The Arlington slaves found Lee to be a more stringent taskmaster than his predacessor. Eleven slaves were “hired out” while others were sent to the Pamunkey River estates. In accordance with Custis's instructions, Lee officially freed the slaves on December 29, 1862.[/I] Thank you for proving my point, and actually reading real history, even if you didn't understand what you read. [/QUOTE]
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