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Be free or die the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero

"It was a mild May morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, when a twenty-three-year-old slave named Robert Smalls did the unthinkable and boldly seized a Confederate steamer. With his wife and two young children hidden on board, Smalls and a small crew ran a...

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Main Author: Lineberry, Cate (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Smalls, Robert, > 1839-1915.
African Americans > Biography.
Ship captains > United States > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, African American.
African American legislators > Biography.
Fugitive slaves > South Carolina > Beaufort > Biography.
Beaufort (S.C.) > Biography.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • The escape
  • South Carolina's son
  • In the service of the Confederacy
  • Union hero
  • Our country calls
  • North and south
  • The Keokuk
  • Captain Smalls
  • The City of Brotherly Love
  • Triumph and tragedy
  • Retaliation and reward
  • Epilogue.

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