The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls

by Louise Meriwether

Book Overview

The true story of an enslaved African American man who escaped to freedom and became a military and political leader

Robert Smalls, born a slave in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, gained fame as an African American hero of the American Civil War. The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls tells the inspirational story of Small's life as a slave, his boyhood dream of freedom, and his bold and daring plan as a young man to commandeer a Confederate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161117855X
• ISBN13: 9781611178555
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7