5 Fascinating Facts We Learned From Reddit This Week

1. Robert E. Lee believed slavery to be a "moral & political evil." In an 1856 letter to his wife, the future Confederate general wrote: "In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil in any Country." Howeer, the letter goes on to discuss a significantly less than enlightened view that black people are "immeasurably better off here than in Africa," and that the pain of slavery is "necessary for their instr...