Chains

I recently finished a book called Chains. I thought it was a really good book, but I didn't understand the time period of the book until the Middle. In school we only really lean about slaves in the Civil War, but not in the American Revolution. When I first learned that the character in the book was a slave my thoughts automatically went to thinking the Civil War Era. Later in the book it when it explained about the British and Americans fighting I figured out this book was in the Revolution. I was very suprised because I never have really thought about slaves during the Revolution, or as a matter of fact heard of them. I only used to think of slaves during the Civil War, but now I have learned that there were slaves during the American Revolution. I also learned that Slaves during the American Revolution did many different things that the slaves during the Civil War. During the Revolution slaves would sleep in their master's house. instead of farming for them they prepared food, tended to the fires, cleaned the whole house, and many other things. The books setting was in New York so it is interesting to know that there were slaves in the North during the Revolution. Books teach us a lot every time we read them and what I just learned is a good example of what you can learn.