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Originally Posted by PedOncoDoc
This is slightly off topic, but how does that not equate to Gen. Lee owning slaves?
To me that's like a guy saying, "I'm not gay, but my boyfriend is."
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It's often used as an "ironic argument" that the Southern Gen. Lee was not a slave owner and that the Northern Gen. Grant was. The argument leans heavily on those technicalities.
Pat
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