"When it came time to return to the US she refused, according to her son, Madison's account, until Jefferson granted her concessions: privileges for her & freedom for their children upon their majority.

You say Jefferson only manumitted two slaves after his death. I believe he manumitted two of their children prior to his death (the two you refer to), but freed the rest of their children in his will. Given that they were born in 1801 - 1808. Jefferson died in 1826. So they would have just come onto their majorities, which accorded to his agreement with Sally."

Thank you for your response. You are correct in that Jefferson only freed two slaves BEFORE his death. I knew that, sometimes I write too fast , I went back and corrected it.

It's true Sally was technically free while in Paris but still totally dependent on Jefferson. Her freedom was obviously important to her given her willingness to take a stance. Yet Jefferson broke his agreement with her and never freed her, even upon his death. The fact she was allowed to wander away without being chased certainly doesn't count as freedom

My biggest grievance with Jefferson is his participation in the plan to systemically rape and force breed enslaved women for profit. He ended the International Slave Trade, not as some prelude to ending slavery but as a protectionist measure for the domestic slave trade which especially benefitted plantation owners in Deleware, Maryland, and Virginia (of which he was one). They had excess slaves due to them having ruined their fields growing tobacco and not properly rotating crops. They made up for that by exporting slaves which soon became Virginias leading export well exceeding tobacco and other crops. If you think that coincidence, his letter to George Washington extolling the value of female slaves says it all.

You are entitled to disagree of course, I think Jefferson was the worst of the worst.