Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families by Andrew Billingsley

Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families

Andrew Billingsley

253 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography informative medium-paced
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On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls (1839�1915) commandeered a Confederate warship, the Planter, from Charleston harbor and piloted the vessel to cheering seamen of the Union blockade, thus securing his place in the annals of Civil War heroics. Slave, ...

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