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Chains

Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson

Chains is the first novel in the Seeds of America trilogy, a series of historical novels that follows the story of thirteen- year- old Isabel, a Black American slave fighting for her and her younger sister's freedom while the Revolutionary War is occurring. The story sets in New York in the years 1776 to 1777, when slavery was legal and common in the colonies.

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“Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.”

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“She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so… I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.”

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“A scar is a sign of strength… the sign of a survivor.”

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“Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.”

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