The Pox Party
About this book
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
- african americans
- african americans, fiction
- african americans in fiction
- british naval operations
- children's fiction
- experiments
- fiction
- freedom
- freedom in fiction
- history
- juvenile fiction
- liberty
- massachusetts, history, fiction
- science
- science, experiments, fiction
- slavery
- slavery, fiction
- slavery in fiction
- united states, history, revolution, 1775-1783, fiction
- united states in fiction
- virginia in fiction