SOLVED. a book red and blue colors on front cover and the picture of a shackle/manacle a slave would have worn [s]

[Katie]

From what I can remember I a white woman falls in love with a slave. I want to say she is married and her husband is the owner of this slave. I think the woman's name is Lizzy but I am not sure. At the end of the book, I want to say someone has the shackle or manacle that this slave wore on their desk. Does this book sound familiar to anyone?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Is it for adults?
When did you read it?

[Noor]

Could this be The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers?

The shackles played a big role in that book and I'm pretty sure there was a character named Lizzy. It had different characters from different generations of the same family so it focused on more than one person.

[Katie]

I would have read this book in 1998 or 1999 I believe. Yes, it was an adult book.

[Natasha]

I'm currently rereading A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett and there are some similarities with what you posted! Lizzie is a main character and she falls for a man who is later owned by her husband. At the beginning an unnamed modern character digs up a broken iron collar in a garden and puts it on a desk. The book is set in eighteenth-century Scotland and Virginia. Does this sound familiar? One edition of this book has a red, white, and blue cover, but a ship: but there's another edition with a chain and different color scheme:

[Katie]

It could be. I'll have to check this one out. Either way, it looks like a good book.

[Kris]

Here's the Google Books preview of A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett - Natasha's suggestion:

https://books.google.com/books?id=Cv6...

[Katie]

I took a look at it and that is definitely the book! Thank you so much!