White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville

[Brian37]

Lee is a very interesting case.  Moderns seem to think that there can be only two sides to an issue:  You are either for something or against it.  Lee's feelings, expressed in an 1856 letter to his father in law, show nuance which makes him a man of his times, nothing more.

http://www.civilwarhome.com/leepierce.htm

December 27, 1856:

In other words "let god handle it."

More like while many thought that inhuman treatment was wrong, none of that quote really express Lee thought of blacks as equal, at best, like a pet one should not abuse. One could argue Jefferson was along the same lines. But again, by the time of the Civil war we know which side started the end of slavery and which side did not.

Considering that there WAS an attempt to end it at the revolution in the North, the North and South cannot be seen as equal. 

Jefferson, still freed Sally and her kids, and as conflicted as one might argue he was, why do that at all if one is going to claim slavery was good, even in the North? To me the fact that slavery was gone in the North virtually almost 100% by the time Jefferson and Adams died, says to me, credit deserves to be given, even if not to all, but the seeds, and the seeds in the North lead to the unfortunate Civil War, but it also lead to Lincoln, the defeat of the South and the total end of slavery in the entire nation.

North or South, it still seems to be an issue unfortunately today, that the South and middle America has yet still to come to grips with.