Started: 8/14/2022
Completed: 8/18/2022
Recommendation: Recommended
Recommended By: Nobody
Review:
So, it turns out that the Indigo Girl is a relative (I am related through one of her sons). Others in my family were able to tell me that she is the reason your blue jeans are blue! This is a good story and it really portrays an interesting time in South Carolina. Yes, there are slaves and this book is not going to make you feel good about it. Though the main character is sympathetic, she is not the Southern propagandist raising heathens into civilization. There is a decent argument for the reverse, but she is truly coming of age during this story largely without family support. This does address the misogyny that was a fundamental part of everyday life for most of humanity and also represents some of the struggle against it. It is a good read, but it isn't going to make you feel good about the South in the time before the revolution.
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