This exciting entry in the Story of line of chapter-book biographies introduces readers to Robert Smalls, an enslaved steamboat wheelman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War and escaped with his family and crew to freedom.
Only seven miles of water lay between the.
Robert stood proudly at the Planter\'s wheel.
Now that moment was here.
Growing up enslaved in South Carolina, Robert Smalls always dreamed of the moment freedom would be within his grasp.
This exciting entry in the Story of line of chapter-book biographies introduces readers to Robert Smalls, an enslaved steamboat wheelman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War and escaped with his family and crew to freedom