Bare Bones: A Fun, Fast-Paced Urban Fantasy: Blood and Magic Book Two (Blood and Magic Series 2) by Lauretta Hignett

Author:Lauretta Hignett [Hignett, Lauretta]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

We settled back into the SUV. Max wiped his face, still chuckling. “I’m sorry. I shouldn't laugh.”

“You shouldn’t.” I opened my clutch slowly. Cindy had passed out again. “You know I’m going to get blamed for the Mannix new-moon party turning into a geriatric orgy, right?”

He wiped his eyes again. “Yeah. They deserve it, though. Bunch of uptight assholes. It’s probably the most fun they’ve ever had.”

I sighed “Yeah.”

“Everything you said was right, you know.”

I turned to look at him. “What do you mean?”

The last of his amusement drained from his eyes; he turned serious again. “Sebastian had a portrait of Katyana Mannix on his office wall, in pride of place. I don’t understand how anyone could honor an ancestor like that. She was a monster.”

I nodded. “She was. Most people don’t know it, though. I only know because I’m fascinated by history, and I tend to try to look a little deeper than what some of the school books tell us.” I shot him a wry look. “Do you know how I found out about Katyana?”

“How?”

“There’s another portrait of her in the school. I used to look up at her every day and think to myself, what an awesome, badass lady. She came to America to start a new life, and she built a whole empire. She was married, but she didn’t come here with her husband. She built her business and ran it all by herself,” I said. “I wanted to learn more about her, so I did some research. And what I found was awful. Historians wrote about her butchering her slaves quite openly; they never even tried to gloss over it. Some of them even made jokes about her nickname, as if it was supposed to be funny. Like, as if what Katyana did wasn’t bad enough, the historians who wrote about her even a hundred years after her death referred to her habit of murdering human beings as ‘breaking all her toys.’”

Max shook his head. “That’s horrific.”

“Yep,” I blew out a breath. “History is always written by the victors, so you already know you’re not going to get the full story when it’s the oppressor telling the tale, but when they minimize that kind of horrific, deplorable, downright evil behavior…” I shuddered. “It really makes you question what you know about the world.”

“I know what you mean. I only learned about Thomas Jefferson recently,” Max said. “That slave girl he kept? She was only fourteen. She had six kids to him, and even though he could have, he never set her free.”

“Historians nowadays like to refer to her as his mistress,” I muttered. “Like she had a choice. He owned her. She was his property. Most of our history is written by white men, and even now, they tend to gloss over things that make them uncomfortable.”

“I think we should feel uncomfortable about our awful history. The trouble starts when you gloss over it.”

“Those that ignore the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them.

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