Filled with passion and sorrow, the historical fiction novel Come August, Come Freedom, written by Gigi Amateau, brings tears to eyes. Each chapter brings on a new journey and hardship faced by the main character Gabriel, and the slaves alongside of him in Virginia. As Amateau tells the story of Gabriel, the reader follows along with the journey ahead of him. Gabriel, born into slavery along with all other African Americans in Virginia, starts his life as a young slave boy. The book takes place around 1780, near where the American Revolution was ending and a whole new civil act begins. Gabriel’s absent father leaves him with his brothers, his Ma, the house cook Kissey, his friend, and partial owner, Thomas Henry. He protected his mother
