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Date Posted: 11:02:43 02/17/09 Tue
Author: Red
Subject: Hi Chas! Sorry Jessie I know the discussion starts next week but I just had to chime in here. Come inside for my thoughts :-)
In reply to: Chastity 's message, "Hello mini re-readers. I know in this post we're concentrating on A Breath of Snow and Ashes but I have a race relations question from The Fiery cross, I never quite understood why Mrs. Beardsley leaves her baby behind. We know that later on she ends up at the moron camp with her lover. If the baby was clearly biracial, being that of her runaway slave lover and not that of the late Mr. Beardsley, wouldn’t she want to keep it? I don’t know, it just always struck me as odd that if she was planning to steal away to find him she would want to take their child, instead of leaving her with a couple she doesn’t know. I’m probably being real simple here so I beg you Lallybroch, enlighten me." on 15:14:08 02/16/09 Mon

I think I agree more with Whiskey Eyes, her post was over at the book boards, or at least I think I can wrap my mind around that one. I can understand Fanny not wanting to take their child into a situation of uncertainty and poverty. Yes you do have to consider race relations and the laws that were in place prohibiting them, but I still don’t understand how that played into Fanny’s decision. I want to know exactly what she was thinking, what she thought would happen if she kept the baby. She couldn’t have known she would get Aaron Beardsley’s property. In fact it would have been have been very doubtful. If it wasn’t for the fact that they were in the back woods and the Browns finding the property so attractive and no one around in competition, it could have all been very different.

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[> [> [> I think Fanny expected Claire and Jamie to keep her baby. She saw how compassionate they were to her and her horrific husband and figured they would care for a baby. And then again, maybe Fannie was in such a confused, desperate state, she just wasn't thinking at all and acting on instinct. She was most likely in pain, weak, and heading into the wilderness. If she thought at all, she probably thought the baby was better off with J and C. -- susiej, 07:17:35 02/18/09 Wed


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