This thesis focuses on the characters of four enslaved Black children in Laurie Halse Anderson’s Seeds of America (2008-16) trilogy. The series comprises three novels: Chains (2008), Forge (2010) & Ashes (2016). The story takes place during the American Revolutionary War and follows four characters on their way to victory and freedom. The aim of the thesis is to examine the portrayal of Isabel, Curzon, Ruth, and Aberdeen to determine how complex each character is. This examination begins with determining the main and secondary characters of the series, as well as the narrators. Next, the relevant genres represented in the trilogy are explained. This includes historical fiction, the neo-slave narrative, coming-of-age story, and the problem novel. The largest part of the thesis considers how the themes Family and Home, Spirituality and Religion, Relationships, Disability and Illness, Violence, War, and Identity are presented in the novels. These themes not only show who these characters are, but also how they are perceived by the American society of the time. The final part inspects how the individual novel titles, the trilogy title, and the front cover illustrations are related to the four characters and their adventures, and how closely the characters are influenced by the American Revolutionary War. The results of the analysis show that Anderson created a diverse set of characters, who all strive towards the same goal – freedom. Despite portraying a unique and interesting perspective of enslaved Black children, who grow into young adults, in the American Revolutionary War, the trilogy has not earned much critical response thus far.