Ruth's stubborn nature adds emotional complexity that challenges and ultimately deepens Isabel's compassion and understanding of others. The unheralded supportive role of women on the battlefield is depicted. Fascinating facts, anecdotes, and real personalities and events are smoothly woven into this fictional story. Their plight offers a less explored perspective on the motivations and hopes of black soldiers during the American Revolution-freedom from slavery, not just from England.
When the sisters are threatened with recapture, they flee again and reinvent themselves as cooks for the soldiers at Yorktown. Curzon becomes a Patriot soldier, Aberdeen lives a dual life as a spy for the British, and Isabel and Ruth find work in a laundry. After struggling to survive in the wilderness, the runaways are emboldened to separate and blend into the turmoil of the Patriot encampments, first at Williamsburg and then at Yorktown. When Isabel and Curzon discover 12-year-old Ruth on a plantation near Charleston, SC, they rejoice agree to bring Ruth's friend, Aberdeen, with them and quickly begin their secretive return journey north. In 1781, the American Revolution rages on. Gr 7 Up-The final book in the trilogy finds escaped slaves Isabel and Curzon three years into their grueling search for Isabel's little sister Ruth and deeply divided in their beliefs of who is fighting for their freedom: the Patriots or the British.
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