Unfortunately for the author, R.E. Lee was no more a racist than Abraham LIncoln who believed that blacks were inferior to whites. That was typical of the era. In fact, when Lee was about to turn down the offer from Lincoln to lead the Union armies and accept a leadership role from the CSA he freed all his family slaves, writing to his sister that he did not want anyone to think he was fighting to defend that evil institution. He believed that slavery would die out of its own accord. Above all he believed in States Rights and saw his first loyalty to his home state, Virginia.
G. Gilligan