Talk:Brierfield Plantation

Slaves Were "Fleeing"?

The article states that the slaves were "fleeing" the advancing Union army. This strikes me as potentially POV. To say that the slaves were "fleeing" suggests that they were happy and content until the Union army disrupted their peaceful and productive lives. Could they have been "fleeing" merely because they had long desired to be free, saw the opportunity, and took advantage of it?John Paul Parks (talk) 14:16, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

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Diversity editing

Some distinctly non-encyc POV editing here.

The opening words define Brierfield as a ‘large forced-labor cotton farm’, from which the hyperlink re-directs to a page titled ‘Plantation’, which is self-evidently the more encyclopedic definition.

‘With his brother's financial assistance and the forced labor of enslaved people, Jefferson Davis became a successful planter…’ We hardly need reminding that the plantations used slaves, or that the property ‘had been bought with their stolen labor’. (There are plenty of other Wiki-pages on which to debate employment ethics.) In any case, Davis was known to have been one of the more benevolent landlords, as a Kentuckian by birth. Valetude (talk) 13:10, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Disagree. The linked article ("Plantation") does not mention slavery in the intro or for several hundred words; we should probably replace it with a link to "Plantation complexes in the Southern United States." But even this more specific and relevant article says only that plantations "generally" relied on slavery. So in any case, the Brierfield Plantation article must specify that it was a forced-labor cotton farm, as opposed to a plantation that may or may not have used slaves. Nor does Davis' "benevolence", whatever that may mean, somehow relieve this article from explaining how this farm was purchased and worked. PRRfan (talk) 14:55, 4 June 2021 (UTC)