Talk:Gardiner Greene

FNs
Er … in footnotes 5 and 13 (Whitehill), and 11 and 15 (Emmet), the 2nd FN of each pair is the one having the full citation and the 1st the author name only. Shouldn't that be reversed?

Also, we aren't given a full cite for Scudder (7, 16), are we?

Jimlue (talk) 23:30, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

A gentleman's C?
What's with this article's "quality" being rated only a C? I mean, it's written by a deep expert, citing deep sources, with nary a word out of place. This, when higher grades on Wikipedia seem to be accorded the products of armchair amateurs having the written organizational, and English, skills of a zucchini. Is it because this article is short? Yeah, well, find someone who can write a longer account, about a man whose name ain't exactly household words in America today.

Well done.

Jimlue (talk) 23:30, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

Suggestion: article editors should be more transparent and clear about Gardiner = slave owner
Dear volunteer editors, This article presently includes this sentence, which is inherently offensive: “The plantation he [Gardiner Greene] owned there, Greenfield, was home to over 200 enslaved people in 1817” citing Whitney 1878.

A British-American slave owner’s plantation in Guyana is not “home to” enslaved people. Full stop. No plantation is “home to” the people enslaved upon it.

Words have meaning. Home means something other than: the place slaves are incarcerated upon pain of death, should they ever attempt to leave (to go home, or make a new home for their families as free people, or even just to go to work for money instead of laboring for free for a slave owner). The definitional characteristic of a “home” is the permanent residence of a family in a household. Obviously, the 200 chattel slaves working on Greene’s plantation are not members of the family.

This should have been obvious to whoever wrote this article.

I encourage the present editors of this article to correct it. 2600:4040:5AEF:B400:1E87:7C9F:7AFB:2726 (talk) 18:15, 26 November 2023 (UTC)