The Pox party

Description:

Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.

subjects: Fiction,  Juvenile fiction,  History,  African Americans,  British Naval operations,  Slavery,  Virginia in fiction,  United States in fiction,  Freedom in fiction,  African Americans in fiction,  Freedom,  Slavery in fiction,  Science,  Liberty,  Experiments,  Children's fiction,  Slavery, fiction,  Science, experiments, fiction,  African americans, fiction,  Massachusetts, history, fiction,  United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783, fiction

Places: United States,  Virginia,  Massachusetts

Times: Revolution, 1775-1783