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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 17 January 2024 and 2 May 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Shaykip, Dislac (article contribs).
There has been a recent spate of edits that appear to be trying to score POV points concerning Davis's ancestry. Some are fascinated by the idea that she may have ancestors from the Mayflower. This isn't a particular distinction.After 400 years there are hundreds of thousands of people (at least) with such ancestry. I probably have such ancestry, for instance. There have also been pointy edits about slave-owners as ancestors. A large proportion of African-Americans have such ancestry, the result of abuse of their forebears by their enslavers. Some of those can easily have ancestry from the Mayflower. Mention of such ancestry as some kind of special distinction or gotcha isn't making the point a lot of editors think they've made. Acroterion(talk)00:15, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I removed two sentences initially because there was insufficient detail in the citations to verify it.
Then I found the Nelson article. It says nothing about Davis being a mentor or teacher, although it does say Jackson wrote "For this reason we should never allow women to express any opinions on the subject, but just to sit, listen to us, and attempt to understand."
Here is the Toobin piece. It doesn't mention Davis at all, but does say When the women outnumber the men in the black societies, the men take as many wives as they can afford, and care for them all equally. In the white for some nebulous reason the men can take only one. . . . The rest are left to become prostitutes, nuns, or lesbians. The sentences that I removed misrepresent the sources.
Although I found the sources, I'm not restoring the content because the sentences are only partially verifiable and because they don't seem to have any relevance to Davis's article. Schazjmd(talk)23:21, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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