In Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy , how does the time period of 1912 contribute to the main conflict in the novel?

The novel is set in 1912, when racism and segregation were widely accepted and enforced by many white communities. That prejudice drives the conflict over the Black community on Malaga Island and the plans to remove its residents. Christian charity existed earlier, and shipping was not a new U.S. industry, so A and B do not explain the conflict.

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