Talk:Lucy A. Delaney

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Improvements to article

What is the best way to improve this article?--PhillipA1997 (talk) 03:08, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The bloated references on Citation section should be removed. Orientls (talk) 18:05, 9 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Removed. Looks like it was vandalism after all, not by mistake. Cielquiparle (talk) 15:40, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edits - work-in-progress

I finished work on the Polly Berry article and am not working on Lucy's article based upon what I have learned. I started by:

reorganizing the sections to flow chronologically, the freedom suits were in two different sections
remove misunderstandings / discrepancies with freedom suit information - there was information that Lucy stated in her memoir that contradicts testimony and court records from the trials
removed non-ency content and content that is inappropriate for this article

The next step is to add information that came from the freedom suits - and where there are discrepancies with Lucy's memoir. The key discrepancies are about Polly's life before Lucy was born. See the Polly Berry article, particularly the notes section, for how I have handled them there.

It would be interesting to find more information about her - perhaps from newspapers, etc. I think that she was quite a civic and church presence in St. Louis.

Any other thoughts about how to improve the article?–CaroleHenson (talk) 12:35, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done.–CaroleHenson (talk) 06:10, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Primary source - memoir

It's best to use secondary sources, so I am going to update the biography to cite other authors, leaning on Gardner and Wong, who seems to have done a lot of research and compared the accounts from the freedom suit paperwork as well as the memoir - and sometime other sources as well.–CaroleHenson (talk) 14:11, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I finished that so that there was some editorial review of content in the body of the article. I added a few quotes from the memoir using {{quote}}, since this in large part about the slave narrative.–CaroleHenson (talk) 03:06, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]