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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (904729)12/3/2015 12:10:46 PM
From: gronieel2  Respond to of 1575357
 
...Probably would have freed them before he died and offered a paycheck for those that stayed and worked for him...

Maybe, except for one thing. Jefferson was busted. Didn't have a dime and owed everybody in town so he couldn't afford to issue paychecks to anybody. Died under a mountain of debt and there were talks of selling Monticello to pay off his creditors.