"...recent DNA results..."

What a wonderful little mantra.   The poster certainly has hypnotized himself with it.

A bit puzzling that there is no actual proof cited.

And by the way, history is an inexact science only to the lazy.

The rest of us don't make blunt statements without proof. A historian would couch this assertion in terms of probability.    Which "of which 4 were his children" is not.

I recognize that we really can't expect anything but sloppy writing--to go with sloppy thinking of course---from the poster in question.

But he has cited no proof that 4 of the slaves Jefferson freed were his own children--perhaps for the very good reason that there is no proof.


Mousethief has put it exquisitely well:


"If you make a claim, it's your job to support it. It's not my job to convince myself you're right. If you can't support it, I have no recourse but to think you are lying or deluded."   

Couldn't have put it better myself.