User talk:TechBear/Lucy Colman

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Additional independent sources -- late 1800s New York state newspapers?

I'm finding it somewhat challenging to come up with additional authoritative, independent sources for Colman. I suspect a lot of the bios about her are primarily based off her own works (which we should cite), but we need independent sources, too. Maybe looking for news articles on the talks and conventions she spoke at might help. I'll see if I can dig up access to 1870s NY state newspapers somewhere... JesseW, the juggling janitor 04:12, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

I've been looking, too, and finding very little. It may just be that, as interesting as she was, she just wasn't influential or notable. TechBear | Talk | Contributions 14:24, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Actually, I found an entry for her in the New Encyclopedia of Unbelief (http://books.google.com/books?id=fsZ26vQxJKMC&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&dq=lucy+colman+abolitionist&source=bl&ots=TqOIMQLAJ7&sig=IdvCYkCs5myDvMoc38G7IYH_h3c&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JP8YUerLFqX7iwKVxoGYDA&ved=0CIMBEOgBMAs#v=onepage&q=lucy%20colman%20abolitionist&f=false) that has some bibliographic references that might be useful. TechBear | Talk | Contributions 14:28, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Nice find; that does seem to be the basis for a lot of the existing online bios of her. It was published by an organ of CFI, so I'm not certain if that will really help with the "independent sources" issue, but it should let us flesh something out more effectively. 63.251.123.2 (talk) (User:JesseW/not logged in) 23:45, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

ChroniclingAmerica.loc.gov

This is bringing up two neat sources:

• Blue-grass blade., April 11, 1909 -- one-page sketch of her life from a Freethought periodical of the time
• Anti-slavery bugle., December 26, 1857 -- letter by her to an anti-slavery newsletter

That should help. 63.251.123.2 (talk) (User:JesseW/not logged in) 00:06, 12 February 2013 (UTC)