In the library, she can hear the gathering of men convened to work on the Westmoreland Resolves, a protest against the English Stamp Act and one of the first acts of sedition by colonists. She can hear the clicking and clacking of spinning wheels and weaving looms as slaves and servants gathered to make fabric and to gossip. Marilyn Cottrell, a tour guide at the home for 31 years, can hear that history. Lee, who was born there, and of his distinguished ancestors, including the only pair of brothers to sign the Declaration of Independence, Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee. It’s the history of Confederate general Robert E. Unless you are listening to the spirits of history. The stately Virginia plantation home Stratford Hall is silent on a Sunday morning. More than 200 slaves and indentured servants lived and worked on the plantation, outnumbering Lee family members. Slave quarters on the grounds of Stratford Hall Plantation, thought to have been originally built in the late 18th century, have been reconstructed.
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