Talk:Moncure Robinson

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Family, slavery and the Civil War
This article needs much further work, which unfortunately I don't have time to do. Currently, it seems odd that it skips his activities during the Civil War, and also doesn't mention any marriage, religious affiliation, nor views on slavery. One of his cousins, Moncure Conway became a prominent abolitionist. Another Virginian of prominent lineage who lived most of his life and died in Philadelphia (Edward Coles) had difficulties marrying in his class because of his abolitionist views. On the other hand, John Moncure Daniel became a leading apologist for slavery, and of course Virginia's courts (in which his brother Conway and so many cousins served) accepted and defended the peculiar institution. Curiously, Virginia experienced a lot of railway speculation and consolidation after the Civil War, which involved lots of corruption/scandals, but the only railroad seemingly not involved was the one around Moncure Robinson's family's ancestral homes in Aquia, Falmouth and Fredericksburg.Jweaver28 (talk) 13:25, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Though I added material to this article in 2018 and again last November, I did not change the genealogy section to reflect that some Randolphs were criticized as crazy because of their opposition to slavery, either freeing slaves during their lifetime or posthumously. The Covid epidemic continues to restrict research library access, and problems with real estate scammers have caused me to limit internet access as well as restrict myself to a windows s-mode laptop that IMHO doesn't increase security despite advertisement and makes editing wikipedia much more difficult because of reliance on the troublesome Edge browser. Thus, I continue to urge other editors to research this slavery issue in connection with this article.Jweaver28 (talk) 15:06, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

I cleaned up this article today after posting an article about his brother Conway Robinson yesterday. Conway was definitely a Confederate sympathizer and probably remained in Richmond during the conflict (during which his sons fought for the Confederacy), then probably moved to Philadelphia around 1870 when he resigned his offices in the Virginia Historical Society. Time pressures continue and I don't have a genealogy of this family handy, though I wonder if Conway got "forgotten" despite his Confederate credentials because he cooperated with Reconstruction authorities and/or Mahone after the war. Or he might have moved to Philadelphia for medical treatment, in which case this article's failure to mention him previously would be somewhat more justifiable. Plus, this relatively new Windows-S laptop has refused to update for 8 days (though a possible version upgrade appeared over the weekend), so I don't know when I'll get back to this article.Jweaver28 (talk) 16:48, 25 May 2021 (UTC)