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.
**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.