Introduction
Chains is a brilliantly told story of two children during the time of slave trading in America. We asked Laura Halse Anderson her views on why she wrote the story.
Interview
D: Chains is a brilliant novel, what made you write about this particular subject matter?
LHA: Thank you very much. I wrote the book so that I could understand how my country could have fought a war for its freedom, but still allowed people to be held in bondage.
D: Did where you grew up help to form this book and its characters with regard to slave trade?
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