More so than we like to admit. Washington was a loyalist until the Dunmore Proclamation threatened his human chattel.
Lee broke for the Confederacy with the election of Lincoln.
Both these men were fundamentally driven by their economic conditions. The difference between Washington and Lee is that Washington won.
He doesn’t understand WHY the Confederacy started the war, does he?
The regional industrial power threatened the South’s economic position as a confederacy of slave holders. That’s what got Washington, Jefferson, and a host of other Southern planters on board, too.
More so than we like to admit. Washington was a loyalist until the Dunmore Proclamation threatened his human chattel.
Lee broke for the Confederacy with the election of Lincoln.
Both these men were fundamentally driven by their economic conditions. The difference between Washington and Lee is that Washington won.
The regional industrial power threatened the South’s economic position as a confederacy of slave holders. That’s what got Washington, Jefferson, and a host of other Southern planters on board, too.