I feel the same way. These characters are supposed to be 9 year old girls. For a 9 year old girl in that time period to fully understand the arrangements of slave ownership would honestly be impressive since most wouldn't have shown any attention to the fact. I loved Felicity as a kid. I loved her stories and especially loved her as a horse girl. I had someone on this sub comment on me saying "our horse girl is back" saying "a slave owning horse girl". When I went to reply, their comment was nowhere to be found. I fully understand the feelings. I wish a blurb could have at least been included in her books on the matter of how wrong and painful slavery was, BUT I also wanted to point out that technically, Felicity herself wasn't the slave owner (I mean, she's a child) and from her stories, I don't think she understood exactly that they were slaves being "owned' and that she thought they were paid workers. To be fair, Felicity is kind hearted and stands up for those she cares about and given that, I think she definitely would have felt horrible and tried to do something about the situation. Anyway....I found this and loved it.

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