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Many were - and the worst ones tended to be downriver in Mississippi. (Hence the fear of being 'sold down the river')

Others who were highly respectable, like Robert E.Lee, treated slaves harshly because they thought blacks would abuse lenient treatment.

Curiously, the Confederate President was a Mississippi landowner who treated his slaves so well that they didn't want their freedom.

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