Ruth and me would have a cabin fit for ladies, with bunks and blankets and pillows and three meals every day. No more riding in the hold with barrels of salt cod. We would be given proper cabins on the ship, I was sure of it. As I gathered in the sheets, I watched the gate, waiting for the rebels to arrest the Locktons and reward me with our liberty.

When Isabel spies for the Patriot army and tells them about the Lockton’s plan to bribe people into becoming a Loyalist, she eagerly waits for Bellingham, a Patriot officer to come to her rescue by arresting the Locktons and setting her and Ruth free. At the beginning of the book, Isabel is hopeful and believes that if she does everything right she will gain her freedom, but after many bad things happen to her because of her role as a slave, she comes to the realization that she needs take matters into her own hands and control what happens to her.Īt the beginning of Chains, Isabel longs desperately to be free and thinks that if she does everything right, she will soon be granted with her freedom. Isabel is finally a free person and definitely feels the satisfaction of doing it herself. The two then travel across the Hudson River to freedom in New Jersey. She steals a boat and then busts Curzon out of prison. When she is caught by Madam, Isabel decides once and for all to run away and find Ruth. After this matter, Isabel continues helping the army by delivering messages from Patriot prisoners to the colonel, only for the purpose of helping her good friend Curzon who was in the prison. When he doesn’t, she is taken to prison, beaten, and is branded on her cheek with the letter “I” for insolence for running away. This goes south when Madam sells Ruth and Isabel runs desperately to Colonel Reagan of the Patriot Army for help.

Awhile later, Isabel decides to become a spy for the Patriot army, hopeful that if she helps them, they will reward her and her sister with their freedom.

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