Lee: another view

[Doug Henwood]

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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:12:33 -0500
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
From: Ed Dupree <tedupree at fas.harvard.edu>

Speaking as an eastern NC cracker, I have to say that my last shred of
admiration for Marse Robert fell away when I came across a particular WPA
slave narrative. A former slave of Lee tells how he tried to escape, was
caught, then whipped by an overseer under Lee's personal supervision ("Lay
it on well", quoth the Marble Man), then treated to a bath of salt water
for his wounds. Don't have the citation, but I remember it well.

Long live country music etc., but fuck Lee along with his Cause.