![]() ![]() ![]() In her 2008 historical novel, Chains, the first book in her Seeds of America series, Laurie Halse Anderson shows how the idea of freedom was a lot more complicated than we often think. ![]() No matter how many times you've heard this story, it's not as simple as it looks. Hold your horses, though, Shmoopers, and kill the inspirational, patriotic victory music just a minute. We know how it all went down-the tea tax protest that literally left the British all wet, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the war that determined whether the Americans would henceforth be known as heroes or traitors. It's a story handed down over two hundred years of generations, told in books, history classes, movies, and songs: the story of the thirteen British colonies who went rogue and changed the world forever. ![]()
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