Cover image for Come August, come freedom : the bellows, the gallows, and the black general Gabriel
Come August, come freedom : the bellows, the gallows, and the black general Gabriel
Title:
Come August, come freedom : the bellows, the gallows, and the black general Gabriel
Author:
Amateau, Gigi, 1964-
ISBN:
9780763647926
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick, 2012.
Physical Description:
231 p. ; 21 cm.
Abstract:
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.