This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

Copyright © 2008 by M. T. Anderson
Cover photograph copyright © 2011 by Jens Carsten Rosemann/iStockphoto
Map illustrations copyright © 2008 by Pier Gustafson

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First adult electronic edition 2011

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Anderson, M. T.
The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, traitor to the nation. v. #2 The kingdom on the waves / taken from accounts by his own hand and other sundry sources ; collected by Mr. M. T. Anderson of Boston. — 1st ed.
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Summary: 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.
ISBN 978-0-7636-2950-2 (hardcover)
[1. African Americans — Juvenile fiction.  2. African Americans — Fiction.   3. Freedom — Fiction.  4. Slavery — Fiction.  5. United States — History — Revolution, 1775–1783 — Naval operations, British — Juvenile Fiction.   6. United States — History — Revolution, 1775–1783 — Naval operations, British — Fiction.  7. Virginia — History — Revolution, 1775–1783 — Fiction.]    I. Title.
PZ7.A54395  Asu  2008
[Fic] — dc22        2008929919

ISBN 978-0-7636-4626-4 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-7636-5377-4 (adult paperback)
ISBN 978-0-7636-5179-4 (electronic)
ISBN 978-0-7636-5660-7 (adult electronic)

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