Ch 1 and 2

While I did actually think chapter one of the book was pretty cool, mostly because it was set in Athens during Halloween, I really enjoyed the second chapter of the book much more. The stories of slavery were so interesting and different than a lot of slave stories I have read about before. It was so sad how mothers were not even allowed to see their own children once they were born to make life 'easier' for them. I never fully realized how much slaves were forced to have children by their owners. I thought it was so fascinating how the Abyssinian Queen helped inspire her sons to get free through her stories and songs and mapped out their journey secretly through a quilt.