Treasonous? Southern secession in 1861 was better founded in law than the secession of the American colonies in 1776. Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee expected slavery to fade away naturally. Think of the state in which you live, a state you're proud to call home. What if you and many of your fellow Virginians, or…

I don't see how he thought blacks were better than him. In what way? I don't believe that those novels are historically accurate. They could be politically correct.

For one thing, the secession was actually legal. The North fought the South only to preserve the Union. Robert E. Lee had a higher regard to African Americans than Lincoln did, in fact him and Stonewall Jackson both described slavery as a "moral and political evil". Seventy-five percent of white Southern families did…