Come August, Come Freedom: The Bellows, The Gallows, and The Black General Gabriel
Author: Amateau, Gigi
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.7
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
39705
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
231
Points per Page
0.025974
Description
This book imagines the childhood and youth of "Prosser's Gabriel," a courageous and intelligent blacksmith in post-Revolutionary Richmond, Virginia, who roused thousands of African American slaves like himself to rebel. The text contains violence.