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The freedom ship of Robert Smalls / Louise Meriwether ; illustrated by Jonathan Green.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meriwether, Louise, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smalls, Robert, 1839-1915--Juvenile literature.
- Smalls, Robert.
- Enslaved persons--South Carolina--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Enslaved persons.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (33 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "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 gunboat from Charleston Harbor and escape with fifteen fellow slaves and family members"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61117-856-8
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