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Robert E Lee: Life & Legacy

American History Hit

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Lee's Life in the South

Professor Susanna Lipscomb: Lee's estate inheritance cast the dye on his decision to serve with the South. She says in some ways, it means as a result of this experience, he is living the late 1850s and early 1860s through the eyes of a slave holder. And there's also something else that we should talk about, which is John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry," she adds.

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