Dingus_Khan [he/him, they/them]

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Cake day: December 15th, 2021

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  • On one hand, that’s kinda nice of your grandfather, but on the other hand, thats the most :lib: way of doing it ever, and it was apparently so exploitable that any attorney could use loopholes to keep it from you

    Huge tangent but: This is how Thomas Jefferson approached emancipating (some of his) slaves. He had several enslaved people that he wished to be set free upon his death, but his surviving family argued that their emancipation would negatively impact the functioning of the estate. So most of them were retained by the estate, some being split up between family members - and all of this after being promised by Jefferson that they would be freed. He could have made it happen any time before his death and there would’ve been very little his family could’ve done, but he didn’t.