Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
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Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
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- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
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- the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
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- Cate Lineberry
- Subject
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- African Americans -- Biography
- BIPOC -- Biography
- Beaufort (S.C.) -- Biography
- Biographies
- Black people -- Biography
- Minority groups -- Biography
- Planter (Steamship)
- African American legislators -- Biography
- Slavery -- South Carolina | Beaufort -- Biography
- Smalls, Robert, 1839-1915
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American
- United States, Congress | House -- Biography
- Ship captains -- United States -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 gauntlet of heavily armed fortifications in Charleston Harbor and delivered the valuable vessel and the massive guns it carried to nearby Union forces. To be unsuccessful was a death sentence for all. Smalls courageous and ingenious act freed him and his family from slavery and immediately made him a Union hero while simultaneously challenging much of the countrys view of what African Americans were willing to do to gain their freedom
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
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- 973.8092
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E185.97.S6
- LC item number
- L56 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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