Talk:Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island

Please clean up recently inserted material under heading "Documents from Reverend Horace James"
Under the recently-inserted section "Documents from Reverend Horace James" it is quite messy. There seems to be the intent to link to some external .pdf files, and the word "quoted" seems to be abbreviated with the un-encyclopedic "qtd." Please clean this up. —Anomalocaris (talk) 07:55, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Rename?
A group has established a website "Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony", which seems to be a more straightforward title than the one here. Any objections to renaming this article the same way? It immediately gets you to the place.Parkwells (talk) 18:00, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Needs editing
Article needs extensive editing and to be linked to other articles on histories of slaves at the Outer Banks, Sea Islands of Georgia and other places that might have had similar experiences, as well as major contraband camps. For instance, Sapelo Island is one that is still inhabited by descendants of slaves and freedmen from the war years.Parkwells (talk) 18:00, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Deleted extensive sections in 2011 about the Lost Colony of Roanoke; not integral to the history of the island as a freedmen's colony during the Civil War.Parkwells (talk) 11:05, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

Amnesty Proclamation
Corrected major problem in misinterpretation of Johnson's "Amnesty" - properties referred to lands, not to slaves. The former slaves did not have emancipation reverted. They were declared free and made citizens of the US by constitutional amendments. But, many contraband camps were dismantled in order for the lands to be returned to former landholders. The freedmen at Roanoke Island lost their plots, but had already learned that the land was too poor to support subsistence farming, so most chose to return to the mainland to find work.Parkwells (talk) 14:27, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Article links
Have added links to this article so far at United States Colored Troops, Dutch Gap, Roanoke Island, New Bern, North Carolina; American Missionary Association, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, John G. Foster, Contraband (American Civil War), Battle of Roanoke Island. Parkwells (talk) 19:31, 22 July 2011 (UTC)