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The American Girl series can play a role in helping us to understand the history of slavery and its legacy. By being honest about this history, we can begin to heal the wounds retro bowl of the past and create a more just future.

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Firstly, as an individual, I believe slavery to be wrong, and in the case of huge plantation owners there tended to be much more abuse. However, in historical context, it is what it is. Someone had to own slaves in order for there to be slaves - is anyone complaining about the Addy books? Her family escaped slavery, so someone had to own slaves..... It's history, both sides.

That said, per capita, at the time of the civil war, the Cherokee natives owned more slaves than whites. Granted there were fewer Cherokees than whites, but it's not like white people were the only ones to own slaves. Also, there were basically 2 kinds of slave owners - those who were on huge plantations and owned hundreds of slaves, and the average "joe" who might own 1 or 2 to help on the farmstead. While it is hard to imagine, think about what it was like if you were a pioneer in 1800, and you had a wife and maybe a kid or 2 under the age of 5. Now, think about trying to build that cabin 100 miles from town (or the nearest military garrison). It would be mighty helpful to have someone else to assist in getting all of the work on the farm done - clearing trees, tilling, planting, building, harvesting. Now, think of all of that land that was available. Do you think that some strapping dude is going to come along and help you when he can get his own land? Now, how convenient is it to have someone who simply has to come along, whether for life as a slave, or for 7 years as an indentured servant. I'm not saying either is right, but to build nations, that is mostly what has to happen. It's happened with every culture across the globe. Sometimes it's individuals that have ownership, and sometimes it's leadership - ie, the king/emperor owns all of the people and conscripts them to service at his whim whenever it pleases him, and for whatever purpose. Most slaves in the US were not on huge plantations, but were owned by people who owned fewer than 20 slaves (88% of slave owners owned fewer than 20 slaves, and they mostly didn't live in giant antebellum mansions). After the war, many of these slaves remained with their former owners. Famously, George Washington Carver was adopted by his white former slave owners after his mother was kidnapped towards the end of the civil war. They made sure he had an education and he was free to leave to go to schools that were away from home. He helped to found one of the first colleges for African Americans in the nation.

I think we need to get away from the knee jerk reactions of slave owner = evil and abusive, and understand history in context. Not to excuse the practice of slavery, but to not condemn people who were simply living within the social and political construct of the time.

Modern day slavery involving drugs, human trafficking, and other horrible abuses needs to be addressed (at an appropriate age - not by 7 year olds visiting this site, so let's not go down the rabbit hole) far more than patting ourselves on the back and saying how much more enlightened we are that we don't have slaves. I'm talking about the meat plant that illegally hired 100 under age undocumented children to work over night hours, and how many of those kids are spirited away and we have no idea what dangerous and abusive work they are doing now. And that is probably tame compared to most stories.

So, no, I'm not worried about Felicity.

Well at that time it was normal and Common and probably more realistic for the time period, and Felicity herself didn’t own a slave that’d be crazy 😥 but her dad owned 2 from what I’ve seen in the books but her grandpa owned a whole plantation, and not all slave owners where cruel and harsh (not saying that the majority were nice or not) but this is why I don’t think American girl will ever bring felicity back bc she had slaves and if they do bring her back they’d probably cut that out of her story or just completely rewrite it