Be Free Or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero

By - Lineberry, Cate

Floor - Floor 4

Published - St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, 2017

ISBN 10 - 1250101867

ISBN 13 - 9781250101860

Book Status - 5 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Ship captains

Shelf No - 6

Call Number - 973.8092 LIN

Physical Description - xiii, 272 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

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It was a mild May morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, when a 23-year-old enslaved man named Robert Smalls 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 Harbour and delivered the valuable vessel and the massive guns it carried to nearby Union forces. Smalls' courageous and ingenious act freed him and his family from slavery and immediately made him a Union hero. It also challenged much of the country's view of what African Americans were willing to do for their freedom. In 'Be Free or Die, ' Cate Lineberry tells the remarkable story of Smalls' escape and his many accomplishments during the war, including becoming the first black captain of an Army vessel

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