{"id":8464,"date":"2017-06-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=8464"},"modified":"2021-09-10T00:15:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T00:15:09","slug":"the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/04\/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"The Myth of the Kindly General Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adam Serwer, writing for The Atlantic, on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/06\/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee\/529038\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/06\/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee\/529038\/\">The Myth of the Kindly General Lee<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Every state that seceded mentioned slavery as the cause in their declarations of secession. Lee\u2019s beloved Virginia was no different, accusing the federal government of \u201cperverting\u201d its powers \u201cnot only to the injury of the people of Virginia, but to the oppression of the Southern Slaveholding States.\u201d Lee\u2019s decision to fight for the South can only be described as a choice to fight for the continued existence of human bondage in America\u2014even though for the Union, it was not at first a war for emancipation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Serwer, writing for The Atlantic, on The Myth of the Kindly General Lee: Every state that seceded mentioned slavery as the cause in their declarations of secession. Lee\u2019s beloved Virginia was no different,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[141],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-8464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-clips","tag-slavery-and-reparations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/News-Clips.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-2cw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8465,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8464\/revisions\/8465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}