

Now Isabel and Ruth must face their fate as slave girls for a Loyalist family, that has no respect or care for either of them. The girls’ original owner had written in her will to have the girls freed at her death however, their dreams of freedoms are revoked by the deceased owner’s nephew who sells the two girls to the Lockton’s. The story illustrates the lives of two young slave girls, Isabel and Ruth that are certain that freedom is right in front of them only for it to be taken away before their eyes.

Chains. Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing. ISBN 9781416905868Īnderson’s Chains is set during the time of the American Revolution in New York City when Loyalists and Patriots are fighting amongst themselves and their beliefs.
