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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
And a lot of freed slaves returned to work the fields of their previous slavers. That doesn't mean they just adored their 'masters'. Turns out the evil you know can be less scary that the evil you don't. Whoever wrote that book and used her returning with Jefferson as evidence is a shite historian. Could it be true? Certainly, but there's no evidence of it so it's safer to take it at face value rather than ascribe some romantic notion of a reluctant slaver upon him.
gpt
She was 16 years old, pregnant, had very little money, and likely never would have seen her family again if she had stayed in Paris. Gee, I wonder why she would decide to stay with her enslaver. /s