AdvertisementThey're strangers with a painful shared bond: Robert E. Lee enslaved their ancestors06:55Download AudioResumeApril 24, 2023Debbie ElliottfacebookEmailDescendants of the enslavers and the enslaved unite for a family portrait at the Arlington House, the former plantation once owned by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and his wife, Mary Custis Lee. (Dee Dwyer for NPR)