Come August, Come Freedom: The Bellows, the Gallows, and the Black General Gabriel

by Gigi Amateau

Book Overview

An 1800 insurrection planned by a literate slave known as Prosser's Gabriel inspires a historical novel following one extraordinary man's life.

In a time of post-Revolutionary fervor in Richmond, Virginia, an imposing twenty-four-year-old slave named Gabriel, known for his courage and intellect, plotted a rebellion involving thousands of African- American freedom seekers armed with refashioned pitchforks and other implements of Gabriel's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763647926
• ISBN13: 9780763647926
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12