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

by Gigi Amateau

Book Overview

Intense, empathetic, richly imagined. -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)

In a time of post-Revolutionary fervor in Richmond, Virginia, an imposing twenty-four-year-old slave named Gabriel plotted a rebellion involving thousands of African- American freedom seekers armed with refashioned pitchforks and other implements of Gabriel's blacksmith trade. The revolt would be thwarted by a confluence of fierce...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763668702
• ISBN13: 9780763668709
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12