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What a story. I read 'the Invention of Wings' by Sue Monk Kidd and that novel was for adults and the brutality was double. It was set in the South which was worse. Both novels are hard to read.

This is a historical fiction tale about 2 girl slaves in Rhode Island right before the Revolutionary War. The girls are slaves and work for someone who treats them as humans. She dies and the will frees the girls and the paper is ignored. They are sold to someone who does not see them as human and they have to move to NYC. I knew the history of NYC being a staging area for the British during the War, but I hadn't read a story about it, so it was nice to learn about the history in story form. I learned many things.

Isabel is treated very badly and inhumanly. She is starved and brutally treated. She is branded at one point and it was horrible to read. I absolutely hated the Madam who owns Isabel. She is horrid. She has no heart. I'm sure in reality, the experience was much worse than this, but it's awful.

My mind kept thinking about taking someone's purpose away. When a person comes to this life, they have a purpose, places to go and see and slavery takes that purpose away. It's evil for many reasons, but that is unforgivable.

I admired Isabel's bravery. I don't know how she kept going. I guess you keep going so more horror is not brough down on you.

I thought this was very well researched about the time and the Revolutionary War. I thought there were some brutal moments for a young book, which is good. We need to accept the truth of it. This story was a horror story. What Isabel and the other slaves go through was a true horror. The feeling of being trapped and caught is awful.

I am glad I read this and I did learn from it. It's a tough book to read. OUr history is so ironic, we were fighting for freedom while owning slaves. Isn't that such a strange idea. It sure has been a long slow learning process still going on in our country. We have so much farther to go.