Talk:Marie-Cessette Dumas

"Living people"
I don't think that she's alive anymore as the article is regarding a person from the 18th century, I don't know which other categories to fill in, but ¿can someone please fix this mistake?

Yours sincerely, --86.81.201.94 (talk) 19:48, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

"Racial identity" -- "negress" or not?
Under the heading "Racial identity" it states "In contrast to describing her as a 'negress', implying she was African, the letter classifies the four children she had with Antoine (including Thomas-Alexandre Dumas) as 'mulattos'." There is no "contrast" in that statement; the child of a "negress" and a white person would indeed have been classified as a "mulatto" at the time. Bricology (talk) 21:47, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Death date
The article appropriately problematizes her death date, with good reason to believe it is not the one mentioned without qualification at the intro. I suggest at least a footnote would be appropriate. Ijon (talk) 12:41, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Please add info about Marie-Cessette herself
This article tells me a lot about her in relationship to the Dumas family but it doesn't tell me, for example, where she was born. 73.170.203.143 (talk) 06:36, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
 * It is quite possible that, whether born in slavery in Saint Domingue or enslaved as a child, even she herself would not know this. Even if she did, it is also quite possible that neither she or anyone else documented it. Given the fame of her Son, Grandson and Great-grandson, it is likely that this and other facts about her would have been published long since in reference works about them if they were discoverable. {the poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 51.194.81.165 (talk) 17:15, 15 September 2023 (UTC)