Chains

by Frances Mary Hendry (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.36

  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 the full horror of the trade her father is engaged in - the slave trade, at its height in the late eighteenth century. BLAn exciting story dealing with important issue of slavery in context of a very readable, swashbuckling adventure story.

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $131.12

  There's only one way for Juliet to prove herself to her father. And that's to change places with her brother and 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 the full horror of the business her father is in - the slave trade. As she meets up with Dand, the Scottish crofter's son, abducted and sold; Gbodi, stolen from her African village; and Hassan, the son of a slave trader, Juliet knows that her greatest challenge is yet to come.