smalls, robert

Tells the story of Robert Smalls, a slave steamboat wheelman who navigated past Confederate forts in South Carolina and became one of the Civil War's greatest heroes.

"The biography of Robert Smalls, a slave steamboat wheelman who navigated past Confederate forts in South Carolina and became one of the Civil War's greatest heroes. Includes text from Seven Miles to Freedom and additional sidebars"--Provided by publisher.

Text and illustrations look at the dangerous plan of an enslaved man named Robert Smalls taking control of a Confederate steamboat, the Planter.

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.

Presents the true story of former slave and United States Congressman Robert Smalls. In 1862, twenty-three-year-old Robert Smalls captured a heavily-armed Confederate steamer and delivered it to Union soldiers. Smalls was granted his freedom for this act, and through his bravery in numerous naval campaigns as a civilian he became the first black captain of an army ship, and eventually a United States Congressman.

A brief biography of the slave who escaped to freedom with his family and other runaway slaves on a captured Confederate gunboat.

Based upon the true story of Robert Smalls, a slave who kidnapped a Confederate ship and its weaponry and delivered it to the Union along with several runaway slaves.

Text and accompanying photographs recount the life and times of Robert Smalls, the first slave to become a widely known Civil War hero.

Tells the story of how the slave Robert Small devised a dangerous plan to steal a Confederate boat and use it to escape to freedom behind Union lines during the Civil War.

Shares the story of Robert Smalls, a slave who became a hero after hijacking a Confederate steamer during the Civil War and turning it over to the Union, and who later served as a U.S. congressman from South Carolina.