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The Indigo Girl
by Natasha Boyd
DNF. I got 50% through when I got sick of waiting for it to redeem itself. I can’t help cringing at this true story about the daughter of a southern plantation and slave owner. Yes there are passages pulled from the real girl’s diary that she thought slavery was bad, but that doesn’t stop her from using the knowledge and labor of the slaves at her disposal to save her crops.
My last straw was a passage of her specifying that she *technically* didn’t own the slaves, her father did. So that makes it ok?!?
This book is positioning her as a plucky and charming and magnanimous heroine (and assuming the reader will give her a pass) just because she didn’t whip her slaves. I get that her attitude was ahead of its time in the 1700s, but I don’t have the patience to read praise for it today.
(Listened to audiobook)
My last straw was a passage of her specifying that she *technically* didn’t own the slaves, her father did. So that makes it ok?!?
This book is positioning her as a plucky and charming and magnanimous heroine (and assuming the reader will give her a pass) just because she didn’t whip her slaves. I get that her attitude was ahead of its time in the 1700s, but I don’t have the patience to read praise for it today.
(Listened to audiobook)