Felicity Learns a Lesson: A School Story

I'm not going to give Felicity's books to my own children because of the profoundly troubling way the stories deal with slavery.

Felicity's parents and grandfather are slaveowners, and at no point does Felicity have any internal conflict or unease about this. These books depict Virginia as if abolitionists did not exist (they did) and as if slavery was not something talked about (it was).

There are ways to write a setting where slavery is normalized, and the narrative makes it clear that it's not morally neutral. This book wasn't that. It felt really icky to read.