The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, traitor to the nation.
By: taken from accounts by his own hand and other sundry sources ; collected by M.T. Anderson of Boston.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 561
ISBN-13: 9780763629502
Subjects: African Americans -- Juvenile fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Freedom -- Fiction; Slavery -- Fiction; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Naval operations, British -- Juvenile fiction; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Naval operations, British -- Fiction; Virginia -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Other titles: Octavian Nothing; Traitor to the nation; Kingdom on the waves
Description: After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor find shelter but no safe harbor in British-occupied Boston and, persuaded by Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join his counterrevolutionary Royal Ethiopian Regiment, Octavian and his friends soon find themselves engaged in naval raids on the Virginia coastline as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full force.