Appreciate your work, arguments and position taken, and heartily agree with your statement about Jefferson as the greatest mind America has been privileged to have. However, as a biochemist clinician, must part ways when the absolute genetic marker study outcomes (which show only that any one of several male Jeffersons contributed sperm) are forcibly (and wishfully- to serve a “historically based” agenda) merged and massaged with scant and sketchy recorded information derived from letters and contrived suppostitional timelines of “possible conception dates”. Have no doubt that TJ from his many writings, would have manumitted all his slaves if VA law allowed it, because he could see where this was going to lead in the new nation. A belief held though the hindsight of the monumental losses our family had as a result of the subject not being resolved with forethought, as Jefferson advocated (and tried to do so in the Declaration of Independence clashing with Franklin on the topic). Deo Vindice.
Thank you both. As I have said, I take this position because I believe the same circumstances occurred in my family.