ship captains

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ship captains

Seven miles to freedom

the Robert Smalls story
  • Halfmann, Janet
2008
A biography of Robert Smalls who, during the Civil War, commandeered the Confederate ship Planter to carry his family and twelve other slaves to freedom, and went on to become a United States Congressman working toward African-American advancement.

Steamboat!

the story of Captain Blanche Leathers
  • Gilliland, Judith Heide
2000
Describes how Blanche Douglas Leathers studied the Mississippi River and passed the test to become a steamboat captain in 1894.

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