Curzon explains that his master, Bellingham, is a Patriot-and the Patriots will free slaves. Immediately upon arriving in New York, Isabel meets an enslaved boy, Curzon. Isabel will help in the kitchen, and since Ruth is “simple,” she’ll be “an amusement in the parlor.” Isabel is distraught: the Locktons live in New York, which means she and Ruth will have to leave behind the ghosts of their parents, Momma and Poppa, since ghosts can’t cross water.
But she brings some seeds Momma saved, though she doesn’t know what they’ll become.Īt a tavern in Newport, a wealthy Loyalist couple, Master Lockton and Madam Lockton, purchase the girls. Being enslaved, Isabel can’t even bring Ruth’s rag doll-she doesn’t own it. Robert, takes the girls to Newport to sell them. But since the will is missing, Isabel can’t prove she’s free.
Miss Finch stipulated in her will that the girls would be freed upon her death. Thirteen-year-old Isabel and her five-year-old sister, Ruth, are enslaved-but Isabel believes they’ll be free, since the girls’ owner, Miss Mary Finch, has just died.
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