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Overcoming Slavery - Chains

            When I first began reading the book "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson I was not very interested, it was slow going and I had a difficult time getting into the story. However I suddenly got a spark of inspiration. This book began to pull me in and I would wake up excited to see what would happen next. The book begins with a girl named Isabel who lives on a farm with her little sister, Ruth. The two girls are slaves for a woman who passes away, their mother who visits from time to time also passes away. So after the death of their owner they are sent away on a cramped and dirty ship. When the ship docks the girls step off only to be sold again to a snooty woman named Lady Seymour, and her husband Elihu. Lady Seymour and her husband already had a slave but were in need of more. After they were sold they were immediately put to work. .
             When Isabel arrived in America she met a boy with a red hat named Curzon. Curzon escorted her to the water pump when she was told to fetch water, he gave Isabel the nickname of Country. Isabel was ordered to attend to Elihu and his friends who turned out to be traitors and were planning to kill General George Washington. They discussed their plans openly in front of Isabel believing that she wouldn't understand them. What they didn't know was that her mother had taught her how to read and write. She told Curzon because his owner is a kind of spy for Washington and his soldiers. The following day soldiers knocked on their door to look for evidence but all they found waiting for them was embarrassment. .
             After a few weeks have gone by they decide to assassinate Washington. They use one of the guards in their plan but the guard is caught and hung for his attempt. A couple of the men also died but Elihu escapes. Lady Seymour, who begged Elihu to take her with him beforehand, is devastated and misses him badly. One day as Isabel wakes she can't find Ruth anywhere.


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