Tyler says heвЂ™s going to fight for the north. You must stay away from Tyler Fier!вЂќД«ut thereвЂ™s a problem! War has broken out! A guy literally rides by on a horse and yells, вЂњWar has broken out!вЂќ вЂњI donвЂ™t need you to protect me from Tyler.вЂќ Savannah spun on her heel and began to walk away. вЂњI have every right,вЂќ Victoria insisted in a rush. вЂњI thought I could learn something about him through performing this ritual.вЂќ Victoria smiled triumphantly. вЂњDid you think you could hurt him by killing little pigs?вЂќ Savannah asked. I came here because I wanted to talk to you.вЂќ Do we learn the names of any of these slaves who have been teaching Victoria these вЂњstrange habits?вЂќ The ones who get a day off to help celebrate SavannahвЂ™s birthday? No, of course not! Do we get any black people? Maybe - weвЂ™ll get to that.ДЄnyway, Savannah finds Victoria in the middle of one of her вЂњrituals.вЂќ The narrator never explicitly says what VictoriaвЂ™s doing, but I think we all know what sheвЂ™s doing.ДЄfter Savannah gets her sisterвЂ™s attention, Victoria asks her where Tyler Fier, their brother ZachariahвЂ™s new friend, is hiding. (This article contains sarcasm, in case youвЂ™re a Texas politician who doesnвЂ™t understand satire.)ДЄnyway, Savannah has an older sister named Victoria, and Victoria has been picking up some вЂњstrange habitsвЂќ from the slaves.

That makes up for the whippings, IвЂ™m sure. He owns people as if they are sofas, but at least he gives them his daughterвЂ™s birthday off. And because itвЂ™s her birthday, her father has given all the slaves the day off. Savannah Gentry is looking over her fatherвЂ™s plantation and she tells us that itвЂ™s a special day - her birthday. The story shifts to 1861 in Whispering Oaks, Georgia. The woman in the book is telling her story to no one in particular and refers to all the events in the third person. Unlike the movie, the woman in this story is not telling the story to her son so he can grave rob. We start in Blackrose Manor with an old woman telling her story, not unlike the beginning of Titanic. She has trouble finding a gardener who is okay with the nightly rose bleeding and wonвЂ™t track the blood into the manor. So join me as I read this book that was the product of an attempt to make the Civil War less about blatant racism and more about some vague idea of вЂњstates rights.вЂќ A book about using black culture without any black people. And all this is done with any actual black people (well, except for one coded one - weвЂ™ll get to that). However, in the next book in the Fear Street Sagas series, #3: Forbidden Secrets, the topic of slavery and the interactions between slaves and slaveowners is an important plot point. I briefly discussed the Civil War in my review of Fear Street Sagas #2: House of Whispers, wherein the topic of the Civil War is more of a brief mention.

Unfortunately, this deviation from the plain truth that the people who fought for the Confederacy were fighting to own humans, pervaded my young adult fiction. It was about statesвЂ™ rights! Yeah, states rights to have the right to own human beings, but sure, вЂњstatesвЂ™ rights.вЂќ

When I was a kid, school taught us that narrative. For what IвЂ™m sure are racist reasons, the narrative surrounding the Civil War has been moving toward a retelling in which the Confederacy was a group of well-meaning people trying to fight for their land and states rights.

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