Talk:Raid on Combahee Ferry

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Issues / Cleanup
Going by the References section, this article appears to be mostly a summary of an unpublished manuscript. The subject certainly seems notable enough to merit not only inclusion but a good writeup—can anyone lend a hand? Fvasconcellos (t·c) 21:24, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

I'll try and fix this page up. I will start by cutting out unneccesary parts, editing for some grammar and spelling. Following that, I will rewrite. Amishjedi (talk) 14:11, 29 July 2008 (UTC) Could also use help with sources?

Some of the references are broken, they lead to an inactive site or 404 page. My group will fix and add sources where it is needed. An expansion of the page will also occur as well. Tumamait (talk) 07:30, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

One of the sources leads to something that might as well be irrelevant to the article as a whole. Travelingsakura (talk) 00:22, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Campaign
Which campaign was this "skirmish?" a part of? Amishjedi (talk) 19:26, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

This was not a part of a "campaign" per se.Jeff G (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 14:37, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Suggestions
An interesting article, but may I offer some suggestions? One is that the piece says James Montgomery and Harriet Tubman "commanded" a regiment during the raid. While that's true of Montgomery, I wouldn't say Tubman was in "command" of troops. Perhaps say Montgomery commanded the regiment and was assisted/helped by Tubman? Also, you make reference to The John Adams. The name of a vessel should be italicized. Also, you need specific references to your sources, not just a citation of a work in progres. Good luck!70.63.228.250 (talk) 23:33, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Don't worry, we're going to contribute much more to the article! There's lots of info about it out in the public sphere that might as well be mentioned in this article as well. Travelingsakura (talk) 00:27, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Errors and Corrections
Please be careful of information posted to this article that can not be substantiated by primary sources. The role of Tubman is very vague. There are no primary sources to substantiate her role in this raid. Jeff G (talk) 14:41, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Not a B-class article
There is no way this article meets the "adequate referencing" criterion of the assessment scale. It's been tagged for OR and needing refs for over a decade! DuncanHill (talk) 20:08, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

Harriet Tubman Biography Quote ("I nebber see such a sight ...")
I reverted a change from a while ago which introduced the quote as "According to Harriet Tubman:" to the prior, more wordy "In an 1869 biography of Tubman written by Sarah H. Bradford, Harriet Tubman is quoted:".

The quote is written in a way to emphasize dialect pronunciation differences to the impediment of readability, which is not the normal style of quotes on Wikipedia, so making it clear not only that it is a quote from a book quoting a person, but which book and some of the context (the year) of the book, goes towards normalizing that.

I'd also like to open the discussion as to whether that quote should be used as such at all (as opposed to paraphrasing its content) -- the book is not a serious historical book (or a serious biography) but was written more for what would now be mass-audience pop-history, and specifically in a time and context where there is a known pattern of white women rephrasing black women's words into an imagined "dialect" pronounciation for their own literary purposes, which calls into question the accuracy of the quote as written at all.

I didn't remove the quote myself, but I'm interested to know other Wikipedian's opinions as to how Wikipedia should handle it, and also the opinions of contemporary scholarship to the quote.

Gaditb (talk) 21:53, 1 December 2019 (UTC)