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A monument honoring the abolition of slavery was dedicated in Richmond, Virginia, just two miles from where a hulking statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee once prominently stood.

President Donald Trump’s long-running fixation on rewriting how the country remembers its past surfaced again last week when ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A Confederate memorial to Robert E. Lee now sits in Charleston’s Marion Square, but questions have arisen about how the tribute to the controversial figure was placed in such ...

“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,” said John ...

Sen. Richard H. Stuart, R-Stafford, portrayed Robert E. Lee as anti-slavery in a floor speech Thursday. But Stuart’s speech left out context, and his claim is rebutted by historians.

CLAIM: Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate States Army in the Civil War, “opposed both secession and slavery.” He did not own slaves. THE FACTS: According to historians, not only did Lee own ...