Hi, there. My name is Lucia Mendel Shanks. I'm a slender, red-haired and green-eyed Irishwoman living in the city of Brockton, Massachusetts. Welcome to my world. Recently, I found myself filled with dread about the state of the world. I simply didn't like the way it was starting to treat me and all others like me. I felt like we were under assault from all sides simply for being who and what we are. Fortunately, I am member of an organization which can change things. In the most drastic of ways. What is this organization? The Time Travelers Club. A secret society of men and women who work to preserve human history. They've existed for a long time, working to protect the world by preventing the worst disasters from ever taking place. At least, that's what they were all about until I came along. Let's just say that this Irish hussy knows how to shake things up.
A radical faction within the Club, led by yours truly, took over. And we traveled through time in the pursuit of power. We returned to 1860s North America, and helped the South win the Civil War. The Confederate Army won, and restored slavery in all fifty states. The rest of world placed an embargo around the United States after America refused to follow Europe's example and ban slavery. Slavery is illegal in Europe, Africa, South America and Asia. It's also illegal in Australia. The leaders of just about every country in the Western Hemisphere banned slavery completely by the close of the 1860s. And as of 1950, most European countries had granted their independence to their colonies around the planet.
Here in Confederate America, fifty nine years later, we're still not like those bleeding hearts of Europe. No way. We firmly believe in the ways of our ancestors. Southern values and viewpoints are now mainstream American values and viewpoints. From the city of Atlanta to Washington D.C. From the town of Boston to urban Dallas. That's the new world order, folks. If you don't like it, kiss my pasty white ass. Our little jaunt in time really shook things up. When we returned to the twenty-first century, we found it refreshingly different. And that's what this story is all about.
As I walked through the streets of Brockton after my last journey through time, I was amazed. I saw men and women walking the streets. And I saw that slavery was still very much legal. I saw a tall Black woman with a leash around her neck carrying groceries for a waifish red-haired woman right outside of Shaw's Supermarket. I also saw a burly white guy smoking a cigarette and chatting with his wife while his slave, a burly Black guy, filled his minivan with gasoline. I looked around and smiled. Wow. At last, the world was as it should be! Yeah! I felt so happy I actually jumped for joy. Then I went into a nearby auction house and bought myself a slave. Just because I could, you know. Ever heard of impulse buying? Women do it all the time. It's just that instead of buying shoes or accessories, I bought myself a slave.
I went to the auction house and bought myself a nice slave. A six-foot-tall, busty, heavyset and big-bottomed Black woman named Bernadine Bernavil. She had been bred in a slave pen in the state of Louisiana. This twenty-year-old Black female slave was well-bred and well-trained. So I paid the three hundred dollars and took her home. I couldn't wait to break her in. Although all slaves are broken in early in life, according to the owner's manual, a second and sometimes third session of breaking in is needed. Some of them are more stubborn than mules, apparently. That's why the auction house gave a new electrically charged prod to every new slave owner. I couldn't wait to try it on Bernadine.