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To: GraceG

I believe your are mistaken. Jefferson freed 5 slaves while alive and 5 others were freed in his will after his death.
G.W.P. Custis, father-in-law of Robert E. Lee, freed his 75 or 80 slaves in his will. Colonel Lee, as executor to the Custis estate, freed those slaves over a 5 year period as specified by the will. Slaves could be freed in Virginia.
There was a law, seldom enforced evidently, that forbade freed slaves from living in Virginia.


51 posted on 07/01/2016 9:04:44 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: Bull Snipe

**Now, I see Jefferson as an egregious hypocrite, who willfully betrayed the ideals he espoused.**

A suggestion to the author ... Read:

http://www.essaysinhistory.com/articles/2012/94

In another 250 years, let’s see how TJ and this author is remembered. Jefferson’s lasting significance in American history or a clueless and failed nobody, who dared to call them-self an author.


101 posted on 07/01/2016 11:58:05 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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