The facts of this book are amazing. It really drives home the idea that our third president and the author of our Declaration of Independence was a slave owner. How does one rectify the idea of all men being created equal and owning hundreds of slaves? Especially when that one is the illegitimate...
It was a way of sharing out what food there was so that rich people, like Susan, couldn’t go hogging it and leaving poor people to starve. Rationing meant there might not be any butter or meat in the shops, and if there was you’d better get in the queue for it fast before it sold out. We all had ...