Other editions of book Chains

Chains come in many forms. To escape being trapped as a useless, ornamental 'lady', Juliet takes her brother's place on a shocking, dangerous voyage, slave trading to Africa. While escaping from her old life, through the horrors of slave trading and a slave revolt, she meets other youngsters on her life-changing journey; Polly, a child trapped in service; Dand, a Scottish farm lad kidnapped and sold in Africa; Hassan, proud son of an African slave trader; Bert, escaped ex-sweep, hoping to become an able seaman when he's 15; little Gbodi, eerily focussed on revenge on all the people who have enslaved her. Which of them will survive?A strong, exciting, fast-moving story for young adults, of violent, callous times, which may challenge your ideas about slavery and those involved in many aspects of it.

Juliet wants to prove to her father that a girl can be just as good as a boy when it comes to business and so she changes places with her brother and sets sail on her father's ship on its next voyage to Africa and America. But Juliet's adventure turns into a nightmare when she realizes thefull horror of the trade her father is engaged in - the slave trade, at its height in the late eighteenth century.* An exciting story dealing with important issue of slavery in context of a very readable, swashbuckling adventure story.