the overseer forces her to eat them as punishment. the next day, she is understandably out of it while she's working in the fields & misses some worms on the tobacco crops. addy gets whipped when she tries to say goodbye to her father. they're already shackled & being taken away. subtle enough to give kids the creeps without letting on anything explicit, just direct enough for an educated adult to pick up on it.Īddy runs to the fields to try to warn sam & her father, but it's too late. if this was the author's attempt to include the reality that female slaves were often raped & sexually exploited by their masters, it was very well done. there is an unbelievably creepy scene in which the new slaveowner pats addy on the head & asks her master if he might be willing to sell her too. addy is serving her master & another slaveowner some lunch & overhears their plans. Unfortunately, the master decides to sell addy's father & her older brother, sam, the very next day. they want to get to freedom before that happens. addy's parents are concerned that their master might separate the family by selling some of them. they have learned about a safe house about ten miles away, occupied by a white woman who helps slaves escape to the north. the book opens with addy waking up in the middle of the night & overhearing her parents making plans for the family to run away to freedom. growing up during the civil war, she & her family are slaves on a north carolina plantation. i thought i had read it like ten years ago, when i decided to read a bunch of the american girl books i missed when i was a kid, but i guess i hadn't because i am pretty sure i would have remembered this!Īddy was the fifth addition to the american girl historical characters, & the first girl of color. this book was so much more intense than i expected it to be.
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