![]() ![]() I really liked Eliza and everything her character began to stand for and therefore I greatly enjoyed her story. Eliza feels the exact opposite although sympathetic to the rebel cause it is the everyday injustice of slavery that causes her to take a stand. ![]() Although many are portrayed as being sympathetic to the plight of slaves, they do not feel it is as important to fight for them as it is to fight for their own sense of the freedom that is to be gained from breaking with British rule. This is miles beyond what any other character in the novel seems capable of. It takes Eliza the majority of the novel to cast off the beliefs instilled in her since childhood. ![]() Eliza becomes close to her parent’s slave, Cassie, and the reader is witness to the gradual shedding of mental prejudice that must take place before their friendship can be truly pure. ![]() Whilst Eliza’s brother, Jeb, fights for the rebel cause and speaks of freedom for his countrymen Eliza looks closer to home and begins to question the hypocrisy that slavery is rampant in her community. It is predominantly a coming-of-age story for the female protagonist Eliza Boylston and her story touches upon the theme of freedom and how fickle it’s meaning can be. This novel tells the story of the fictional Boylston family from Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the Revolutionary War. For a synopsis of this novel please click here. Thank-you to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for my advanced reading copy of this novel. ![]()
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