Those are all good points. And I try to implement them in my life. Nothing I have said here has intentionally flouted any of these precepts.
You said this: “Tom sure didn't practice what he preached.”
Not so.
You said this: “In his private life he was quite profligate. Always had to have the finest wines, books, furniture and scientific instruments from Europe. As a result he went deeply into debt, thus being unable to free any of his slaves since he had had mortgaged them.”
And you know that how?
You said this: “Difficult to imagine a better description of a slave owner. A parasite indeed.”
Those were all negative, mostly supposition, and pejorative. Not very honest comments.