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Yes. He was born into an aristocratic planter class family in Virginia. He inherited forty slaves from his father and in his lifetime would increase his holdings to sixty slaves.

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Richard Henry Lee: a portrait of an American revolutionary by J. Kent McGaughy, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 2004, pg. 61

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