The Private Thoughts of Robert E. Lee

At least you got it that Lee was cruel to his slaves, but did you notice the DETAILS? He was obsessed to get one girl back, kept meticulous notes about her, give drastically higher bounties to get her back, and personally directed her capture. Then he had her tortured and sold her baby.

Did you see the white looking slave baby girl in the picture? Do you realize he SOLD that baby girl? Do you know where white looking slave girls ended up? I bet you don't. Whore houses. That's why they so were valuable.

Pryor is very clever, she admits Lee sold white looking slave girl babies -- only by cryptically saying that as of a certain date, only old slaves, and young boy slaves, remained. Artful dodge. In other words, the FEMALES were gone. Where?

Lee's account ledgers were extensive -- Pryor had them! She knows where they went. If they had died, Lee would have recorded that. She dances all around it, she can't be candid, because she adores Lee.

Pryor deserves are lot of credit to expose as much as she did, but she exposes it AS she is working very hard to excuse or minimize it. She actually blames the slaves for the torture, saying they "tested Lee". How did the slave girls "test" him? They ran away. Why did they run away? Because he was selling their babies.

Pryor also says Lee's torture (discipline) was a result of his "poor cross cultural communication". How Orwellian can you get? He tortured them because he was a poor communicator??? Reminds me of that movie where Paul Newman was whipped, and the warden said it was "a failure to communicate"

You read the same book I did, and all this is in there. The torture, the white looking slave girl, his bounties, etc. But you didn't really "get it" because of how Pryor "revealed" the amazing facts. She is working MUCH harder to sanitize and minimize and gloss over the horrors.

Lee DEFENDED slavery as God's wish, and defended the TORTURE of slaves, saying that God intended slavery be to painful, as a way to teach blacks. Typical of the insanity of Lee devotion, this very letter is often used by some to prove Lee was AGAINST slavery. It is actually a very smooth, -- aka sociopathic -- way to JUSTIFY slavery. He does say slavery should end, but in 2000 years, and only GOD can end it. It's evil for men to even try! And the pain he inflicted on slaves was justified -- in his mind.

Imagine if Lincoln had young girls tortured, gave very large bounties, personally directed the search, and then had the girl tortured, and sold her baby. Do you think that would be covered up the way Pryor has covered this up?

Again, she deserves a lot of credit for admitting the underlying facts, but she soft peddled them as much as humanly possible.

Mark of IL 5:31PM January 01, 2012