Combining real history with flights of imagination, this highly inventive novel dramatizes a little-known but important facet of the American Revolution -- the first bold attempt to liberate slaves and let them serve as free soldiers in the new nation. Along wtih the military action, the book includes wild and hair-raising accounts of the slave trade in west Africa, Murfy's extraordinary adventures in the middle passage and a series of amorous alliances. 332 pages.

Fiction, Adventure, Revolutionary War, Gerald Green, Black Soldiers, Combat, Fighting, Warfare