"Either [Lee] knew what slavery meant when he helped main and murder thousands in its defense or he did not" — From an essay on Lee (1928)
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee
Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth
“Levin’s study is the first of its kind to blueprint and then debunk the mythology of enslaved African Americans who allegedly served voluntarily in behalf of the Confederacy.”–Journal of Southern History