Uprising at Dawn — Lee Roddy

EMILY, a Northerner who hates slavery, is stranded at Briarstone Plantation in Virginia. She longs to cross Civil War battlefields to her home in Illinois. But when friend Gideon tells her that they are all in extreme danger from a planned slave uprising, Emily joins them in a desperate effort to prevent tragedy..

GIDEON, a Southern teenager, overhears plans for a slave uprising threatening the lives of his own family, plus friends Emily and Nat. Gideon enlists their aid in a desperate effort to discover who's behind the uprising so it can be stopped before the plotters strike.

NAT, a teenage slave at Briarstone Plantation, plans to run away when he learns that a white slave speculator has come to sell him into the Deep South. Then Nat discovers that friends, Emily and Gideon, are in dire jeopardy from a slave uprising. Will Nat run away or stay and risk his life to help his friends?