Slave Day

A well-meaning fundraiser -- or a rascist ploy? Most people think Slave Day, Robert E. Lee High's annual fundraiser in which students and faculty are auctioned off as slaves, is a fun activity, but Keene Davenport doesn't agree. He has called for a boycott of this racist tradition. When his protest fails, he decides on another course of action: He will buy Shawn Greeley, Lee's first African-American student body president, for a day of eye-opening degradation. Other participants have their own agendas. Class clown Tommy Parks scrapes together $1. 14 for Mr. Twilley, his stuffy history teacher. Tiffany Delvoe, arriving late, as usual, is forced to spend her daddy's C-note on the only slave left, computer geek Brendan Young. Told from the alternating first-person points of view of these eight integral players, Slave Day chronicles the lasting effects, both highly tragic and extremely comic, of this particular day in the life of Lee High.