I just bought that book about two weeks ago and do plan on reading it. I’m sure I’ll be shocked by it. I’m not justifying the evil institution of slavery, but just don’t like to lump all people into one or two categories, which makes for easy labeling like “evil” and “good”. I wasn’t even disagreeing with you in my comment. My typical goal is widen the narrative or add some information or perspective to authors on Medium. Most or nearly of them I read tend to be “liberal” or “freethinking.” Overall though, there are few people who see Jefferson as an underage rapist, which I believe he was.