The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, traitor to the nation. 1, The pox party / taken from accounts by his own hand and other sundry sources ; collected by M.T. Anderson of Boston
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War