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

A story inspired by the heroic life of "Prosser's Gabriel" describes how a literate slave organized a rebellion in 1800 Richmond, Virginia, involving thousands of African-American freedom seekers whose cause was tragically thwarted by formidable weather and human betrayal. By the author of A Certain Strain of Peculiar. Simultaneous.