Chains (The Seeds of America Trilogy)

My 5th grader was assigned this book as an assignment. Me being the extra involved Mom, decided to read it and couldn't put it down. I actually bored it from the teacher, then purchased a copy. This was only book of the series that interest me.

Assigned by my son's fourth grade teacher, I decided to read it with him. Its a good story to introduce children to the disparity between our founding fathers fighting to gain American independence while simultaneously oppressing other human beings in a manner out of all proportion to there own oppression. Told from the perspective of a little slave girl, it gave my child an awareness of this sad chapter in the story of American independence in a fair and even handed manner.

Read this book because it was required summer reading for my 8th grader. I could not put it down! It was so well written, with so much history- things I never knew-just fascinating! We also read FEVER 1793 by the same author, and it was just as wonderful!