User talk:Lin Henke/sandbox

Lin and Perri, this is great work so far. Such an interesting and rich life with a truly tragic end. I did some sleuthing on your sources and followed one to this: The Daily Press newspaper of Oswego, NY's October, 19, 1870 1:30 pm printing reads,

The mulatto girl who died at the house of a Mrs. Paine, in Syracuse, the other day, proves to be Edmonia Highgate, well known as a teacher of freedmen at the South, and with some talent as a lecturer. On examination of her body it was found, that she was enceinte, and she probably took poison to hide her shame. (from the Alexander street source)... it took some squinting, but that is the direct quote from the paper that I was able to pull up. May be interesting to add at the end? I have some questions about this particular way of citing it, and wonder if there's a more accurate way to cite this, say, via the library of congress or national archives. Will ping to see what she thinks about this.

Also, I might suggest adding something about her writing in the subheadings on career, since each paragraph also mentions things she wrote at that time.

Did you do a lauinger search engine search on her, by the way, including newspapers and periodicals? (though I know it doesn't have this 1870 news paper I already checked)

Good work with the hyperlinks. I may use this as an example in class tomorrow for that, if that's ok. Also, I love the info on her role in transcendental writings. --T. Danylevich (talk) 16:16, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Dear Lin! Your project is looking really good so far, it's very organized and I think the way you categorized everything makes it really accessible when trying to find specific information. It was really interesting to hear about how she became a principal at the age of 19, I can't imagine that in today's world. Furthermore, it was interesting to hear about how she ended up falling in love with a white man and also broke my heart to hear about the way her life was ended. Maybe if possible you could include somewhere on the page what her views on abortion were? Otherwise, your page looks great, very organized and your references seem reliable. The information you have is all relevant and does a good job describing the type of person she was and the work she did.

Hey team Edmonia!!! I really wanna applaud what you guys have so far, it's very content rich and looks very professional!! All the hyperlinks to other stuff, especially with the black codes, is super helpful to refer for more information. Do you know if there's a particular wiki article about the New Orleans Massacre you reference? If so maybe linking to that could help with context and background for the event, but if not that's ok too. The nature of her death is also fairly mysterious, and if you're able to find more about it that could be really insightful, although I imagine that might be difficult. Wonderful job guys!!

Thoughts from Elysia (Wiki Ed)
Hi, based on newspaper clippings I located, Highgate appeared to die from a botched abortion. When in edit mode, click "cite" and you can have the option to do a manual cite of "news". That's how you can cite old newspaper clippings like this. If you wanted to link to the New Orleans Massacre, it's at New Orleans massacre of 1866. Thanks, Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:39, 15 April 2020 (UTC)