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Historian Allen C. Guelzo on Hard Choices and Robert E. Lee

The Daily Stoic

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What Is Slavery?

LZ: Have you ever seen the advertisements for fugitive slaves? LZ: For lee to look at that and say, this is an evil. You think you've got that right, but then to look away from it  is a moral zigzag of the most extraordinary proportions. That's slavery. And what's more, it's slavery that permits this man to publish this as an advertisement in a newspaper over his own name,. LZ: The only thing i can compare it to is what is what w j. Sabald wrote about about germans in the 19 thirties; they could look on what was happening and looking away from it, just determined not to

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