Kingdom on the Waves

Description:

After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor find shelter but no safe harbor in British-occupied Boston and, persuaded by Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join his counterrevolutionary Royal Ethiopian Regiment, Octavian and his friends soon find themselves engaged in naval raids on the Virginia coastline as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full force.

subjects: Fiction,  History,  Science,  Slavery,  Liberty,  Experiments,  African Americans,  Juvenile fiction,  Freedom,  British Naval operations,  nyt:chapter-books=2008-11-02,  New York Times bestseller,  Children's fiction,  African americans, fiction,  Slavery, fiction,  United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783, fiction,  Science, experiments, fiction,  Massachusetts, history, fiction,  Science fiction

Places: United States,  Massachusetts

Times: Revolution, 1775-1783