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Jefferson hit his pro-abolitionist high water mark during his time in France with Sally and her brother the latter of which he publicly freed when he got home and the former, well, we don't know what happened to her papers other then she died for all intents and purposes a free woman living on Jefferson's plantation with her sons that Jefferson petitioned the state legislator to free and give an acre each of his land to build a house on.



He was never quite that strident on the issue of slavery before or after. The question is what would have happened if he showed up at the convention for whatever reason? Could he have convinced the Southern delegation, Washington first and above all to support a staggered end of slavery say by the 1830s?

What other changes could have happened if he was there?
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