Publisher's Synopsis
Raised a slave on a Cherokee-owned plantation in the Indian Territory, brilliant Book Boy longs for freedom with his love, Misty. He is called Book Boy because he can read, despite the harsh Cherokee slave laws forbidding it. Risking torture and death on a moonlit November night in 1842, Book Boy engineers the daring escape of twenty-five plantation slaves.Their prize is freedom in Mexico, but to reach it, they must make a dangerous journey through wild country, battling slave catchers, a Creek posse, and the Cherokee army expedition sent to track them down. As the romance between Book Boy and Misty blossoms, it is complicated not only by the hardships they must face, but also by the desires of another slave, Millie, whose affections will not be denied.
Inspired by the actual events of the Slave Revolt of 1842, The Freedom Game imagines the personalities and details of a little known slice of American history.
