Alabama and Mississippi will also honor Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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21. Lee helped end slavery

I put this out simply for discussion and possibly some input since I really don't know the answer but I have read in the past that possibly one of the first acts of a victorious confederate government would have been to start abolishing slavery it's self since Great Britain and most of Europe at the time including the United States would have boycotted any southern trade until the institution it's self was abolished leaving them no markets anywhere until they fell in line with the rest of the world. I don't know if there is anything to this line of reasoning or not but I have heard it put out before