Title: Come August, come freedom
Description: Imagines the childhood and youth of "Prosser's Gabriel", a courageous and intelligent blacksmith in post-Revolutionary Richmond, Virginia, who roused thousands of African-Americans slaves like himself to rebel.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 19th Century, Slavery, Fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American, Slave insurrections, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Prejudice & Racism, African Americans, History, Children's fiction, Slavery, fiction, African americans, fiction, Virginia, fiction, Young adult fiction
Places: Virginia
People: Gabriel Prosser (ca. 1775-1800)
Time periods: 1775-1865