Robert E. Lee fought for the belief that an entire race was meant to be enslaved and was lesser than him. Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was born a slave and achieved more than Robert ever could have dreamed of.

Context: Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was a French Revolutionary War general of mixed-race ancestry born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (today Haiti) who was the highest-ranking black leader in a modern white society until recent times. He was born March 25, 1762 in the town of Jérémie, to Alexandre-Antonie Davy de la Pailleterie (known as Antoine), [...]