Talk:Belle Boyd

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Whats up with the image? i though it was very rubbish and lame fix mistakes NOW @$$
 * somewhere along the line the format of the bioinfobox got corrupted.David 07:32, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Union soldiers spanked her mother? Is that accurate? --黒雲 user:Qaddosh 15:28, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I've been doing a lot of research on Belle Boyd for a paper and I found this page EXTREMELY inaccurate. It definitely requires some correcting. Example: the hotel she worked out of belonged to her uncle - her father was a shop keeper.

She was 56 years old when she died? Doing the math, I get 57. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.54.131.130 (talk) 22:19, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Birth date
The entry in the Boyd Family Bible of May 9, 1843 is most likely accurate as a contemporaneous record. It is likely that she changed her birth year when she was about to "come out" as a debutante, so that she would be the right age. Thus she would retroactively say that she went to Mount Washington Female College when she was twelve, rather than at the age of thirteen. The existing Washington papers that I have looked at do not mention her "coming out", but their obvious gaps make that non-dispositive. --Bejnar (talk) 17:35, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Slave vs. Enslaved Person
Hi! I had an edit undone where I changed the word "slave" to "enslaved person." Although as the editor that reverted my changed noted, enslaved person is more awkward, the usage gives the individual that is enslaved agency and humanity, rather than reducing them to property. Is it possible to used enslaved person in this article? Thanks! Anne MacGall (talk) 15:30, 3 May 2021 (UTC)