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The Indigo girl takes place in a time in history where people were owned as slaves and girls had no rights to property. The Lucas family move to the Carolina's in America to try to build their crops for business. Mr. Lucas has a divided family in that his middle boys are away in London going to school. His ill wife, oldest daughter Eliza and younger daughter Polly live on their property in America. Mr. Lucas must leave them to go to Antigua for work. Eliza is left in charge and finds that as a young woman there is little respect among men. She is not at all interested in the norms of society where the a woman's only choice is to marry, hopefully a good man. Eliza wants to work the fields and learn about plants. She is smart and determined and strong willed. She also is one of few with the mind set that the slaves are people to be treated well. I believe she set in motion the importance of freeing them and no longer living in a world where people can be owned like property. I found it very interesting that she was a real person and the George Washington was a pallbearer at her funeral.
