Hi @Generalissima, thank you for your work on this article - an interesting subject, well-written and well-sourced. I've left some comments below. Feel free to push back wherever you think necessary! Unexpectedlydian♯4talk‽ 14:44, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
he was able to purchase a massive property Not sure about the word "massive here" - could just be conflicting dialect, but seems a bit casual. Could change to something like "large"? There are a mumber of instances of the word "massive" throughout the article. If you agree, I'd suggest changing a few.
Early life and family
Maybe link "frontier"? I'm not familiar too familiar with the history or geography so wouldn't be able to tell you what it refers to.
James Franklin amassed hundreds of acres of property along the north shore of the Cumberland River, alongside a significant number of slaves: by the end of the 1810s, he owned 26 enslaved people. Does the "significant number of slaves" refer to 26, or is it implied that the number had reduced to 26 by the end of the 1810s?
where he was instructed in the "mere rudiments of education". State in the prose that this is a quote from Rothman.
Early career
By 1821, he mainly purchased from the mid-Atlantic. Could you link "mid-Atlantic" or maybe expand a bit on what/where this means?
Franklin & Armfield
Later described as a "three-story townhouse attached to a massive private jail" and "Franklin's black hole" Described by who?
Planting
A complex of 15–20 brick slave houses "laid out like a small town" was erected on the property Who described it this way? Worth adding something in the prose about said that.
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Rothman 2022
Some citations used for Rothman 2022 cite pages which are not part of the article. Are these citations maybe meant for Rothman 2021 instead? For instance, citation numbers 44, 58 and 59.
p.227 Y
pp. 237-242 Y
p.243 Could be missing something, but the first para of "Bypass of trade restrictions" doesn't seem to be backed up by p.243? P.243 refers immediately to the November 19, 1831 legislature, not the August 1831 slave rebellion or Franklin being worried about the legislature passing.
