Talk:Thomas Pellow

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What's with this article? It appears to just be someone's research paper added, complete with sections that have nothing to do with this guy.

Relevance?
I'm not sure what the relevance is of the sections on Converting Christian slaves to Islam and Women and slavery. This is an article about Thomas Pellow but those sections seem better suited to a general article on slavery at the time.

Bill Jpn (talk) 00:10, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Content of section "Race relations in Pellow's narrative"
I see the content of the last section as problematic.

On the form, it is mixing informative content on Pellow's work (mainly in the first paragraph) with what could pass for personal opinion on a connected but different subject, and quotes about that subject. A rearrangement seems necessary, and maybe displacing some of the content to other articles. The use of the abbreviation "MN" seems unnecessary.

On the substance, applying "customized" narrative tropes (made two centuries later in order to show racism in a segregation or post-segregation American society) in this place seems strange and lacking in quality. Strange because it doesn't seem to help understand the work better, and lacking in quality because talking about such a subject would logically require more information, references or links. Adding several examples, or supporting content like a broader literary analysis of Pellow's work (which might show that the black character mentioned would fit into a broader supporting character category) would make the point less hollow.

The end of the section has too much of a personal (or academic) opinion and should probably be rewritten in a less assertive or more neutral way, for example by adding references. Pm3003 (talk) 21:23, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree that the last part of the article consists of someone's opinionated academic "analysis", and should be either removed or entirely rewritten, with different sources. It's a waste of any reader's time and mental energy.--Quisqualis (talk) 05:12, 10 June 2021 (UTC)