TY - BOOK AB - 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. AU - Anderson, M. T. CN - PZ7.A54395 CN - PZ7.A54395 CY - Cambridge, Mass. : DA - 2008. ET - 1st ed. ID - 328519 KW - African Americans KW - African Americans KW - Freedom KW - Slavery N2 - 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. PB - Candlewick Press, PP - Cambridge, Mass. : PY - 2008. SN - 9780763629502 (alk. paper) SN - 0763629502 (alk. paper) T1 - The kingdom on the waves / TI - The kingdom on the waves / VL - v. 2 ER -