[quote=Vilageidiotx]
I don't know too much about his particular story, but you have to watch out for that sort of approach to the subject. Oftentimes, on the larger plantations like that Lee inherited from his wife, the master wasn't very involved with their plantations anyway. It was the guys they hired that did the abuse.
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Like many a CEO or the general owner of a large corporation he was most likely far from where things are actually going on, or the office even. And I'd hazard when in town he was probably never physically close enough to his "slaves" to notice them.