Mary Custis Lee, wife of General Robert E. Lee, was the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, wife of George Washington. Mary inherited the palatial estate Arlington that overlooked the nation’s capitol and many heirlooms from our first president. She was a devout Christian and faithfully kept a prayer journal that has survived, and thus in the […]
From Stonewall Jackson
The Black Man’s Friend
By Richard G. Williams Jr.
It is common knowledge that Confederate General “Stonewall” Jackson was a devout Christian. But his founding of a “Colored Sabbath School” and the legacy he left in the African-American community is seldom mentioned.
• Determined that blacks, both slave and free, should be taught to read the Bible, […]