"I think it would be better for Virginia if she could get rid of them... I think it would be for the benefit of Virginia."
— Virginia

January 1, 1970

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Robert E. Lee, testimony to the Joint Congressional Committee on Reconstruction (17 February 1866), responding to a question on relocating freed slaves to other states, as quoted in Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction at the First Session Thirty-Ninth Congress (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1866), pp. 135-6