Now, from atop that hill, I recognized that there was a middle way, a purpose one could strive for that allowed person concerns – those you love - to be on the one side, whilst the concerns of an entire people, of a country, to be on the other. I had chosen to focus on the smaller stage, concentrating myself only with my sister’s circumstances. He favored the larger stage, the grand scale at which folks sought to improve the world. “I was finally beginning to understand what had driven Curzon for as long as I’d known him. On Curzon’s big heart – this is a good lesson for kids to understand there is plenty of love and care to go around: Freedom would not be handed to us like a gift. I did not share their certainty, but for the first time I found myself wanting to believe that it might be possible. “…They believed that they were fighting for a country that would offer liberty to all of us. the era of my old history class days.īe sure to read the appendix - Q&A with the author. Thus, the phasing need to be updated, vs. Being a slave was not their identity it was forced upon them. They were stolen, kidnapped, enslaved, bought and sold. If there is one thing readers should take away from any of these three books is that the blacks weren’t slaves. The ending doesn’t promise a rosy future. The path to freedom was a heavy subject in this 3rd book. “Ashes” explored the decisions that blacks had to make then – fight in place of their ‘owner’ and maybe they’ll earn their freedom (more likely not), run away to the British and maybe they’ll gain freedom, or if they are super lucky, they might join a regimen from a state that has declared those who fight will automatically earn their freedom, such as Rhode Island. The creativity is in this ‘translation’, but the originality has left the building. “Forge” comes across as factual, translating facts of the past into fiction, bit by bit, chapter by chapter. Even though the violence is dialed down for the YA audience, I still cringed at moments of the tale. “Chains” is by far the strongest amongst the three - fierce, impactful, and stirs the imagination.
The rest of the book instead focuses on the last phase of the revolutionary battle ahead, how all of them will participate in it, as well as setting up for an ending that ties this trilogy together using seeds as a theme. Their search is successful very early in this book, though with plenty of conflicts from this ordeal as Ruth was lied to that Isabel didn’t want her (fairly basic plot point). The story picks up from ‘Forge’ with Curzon and Isabel in search of Isabel’s younger sister, Ruth, stolen from Isabel seven years earlier when Ruth was only five. ‘Ashes’ is the final book of Anderson’s YA ‘The Seeds of America Trilogy’.
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