![]() ![]() ![]() Wesley Norris was born a slave on the plantation that Lee managed after his father-in-law died. Lee fought in court to keep the slaves working because he didn’t know if he would be able to pay off his legacies. Lee wanted to work the slaves beyond the five-year limit stated in his father-in-law’s will. “He was utilizing the slave labor in order to pay the legacies,” Reeves explained. Reeves explained that Lee worked the slaves for about five years in order to pay off legacies associated with his father-in-law’s estate. ![]() “Between owning a handful of slaves from his own family and then managing his father-in-law’s 200 slaves, Lee was very, very involved with slavery during his life up until the end of 1862,” he said. Lee: The Forgotten Case Against an American Icon,” said the claim about Lee is false. John Reeves, a historian and author of the book, “The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee against his neck for several minutes as he struggled to breathe. ![]()
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