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Robert Smalls: America's Boldest Civil War Escape and the Extraordinary True Story Behind It
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Series: America in War, Power, and Revolution, Book 15
Military BiographiesCivil War Period (1850-1877)General World History
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ISBN13: 9798188770655
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 24 2026
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 24 2026
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Three in the morning. A stolen Confederate warship. A man who does not legally own his own body, standing at the helm in a dead man's uniform, sailing straight past the fort that started the Civil War.
One wrong glance from a guard, and it's over for everyone aboard.
Robert Smalls was born enslaved in Beaufort, South Carolina, on the very same day he came into the world. Twenty three years later, he did something almost no one thought possible. He seized a Confederate ship, smuggled his family and fellow captives past five armed checkpoints in the dark, and delivered himself, and a trove of military secrets, straight into Union hands.
One wrong glance from a guard, and it's over for everyone aboard.
Robert Smalls was born enslaved in Beaufort, South Carolina, on the very same day he came into the world. Twenty three years later, he did something almost no one thought possible. He seized a Confederate ship, smuggled his family and fellow captives past five armed checkpoints in the dark, and delivered himself, and a trove of military secrets, straight into Union hands.
Few people know what happened next.
Smalls didn't stop at freedom. He met Lincoln. He fought in seventeen battles. He returned to Beaufort and bought the very house where he'd once been enslaved, then made a choice about its former owners that still defies easy explanation. He taught himself to read at five each morning, rose to the United States Congress, and refused a ten thousand dollar bribe to give it all up.
Then he watched it unravel. The hidden truth behind Reconstruction's collapse is a story of fraud, forged evidence, and a governor who stood before his own state and openly declared the plan to strip an entire race of its vote.
What you're about to discover will change how you see the story of American freedom.
This is history at its most human, gripping, and unflinching, told for readers who want the full truth, not the sanitized version. Perfect for anyone drawn to Civil War history, untold Black history, or true stories of ordinary people who did the extraordinary.
Robert Smalls proved that courage can change the course of history, and that history can just as easily try to erase it.
Smalls didn't stop at freedom. He met Lincoln. He fought in seventeen battles. He returned to Beaufort and bought the very house where he'd once been enslaved, then made a choice about its former owners that still defies easy explanation. He taught himself to read at five each morning, rose to the United States Congress, and refused a ten thousand dollar bribe to give it all up.
Then he watched it unravel. The hidden truth behind Reconstruction's collapse is a story of fraud, forged evidence, and a governor who stood before his own state and openly declared the plan to strip an entire race of its vote.
What you're about to discover will change how you see the story of American freedom.
This is history at its most human, gripping, and unflinching, told for readers who want the full truth, not the sanitized version. Perfect for anyone drawn to Civil War history, untold Black history, or true stories of ordinary people who did the extraordinary.
Robert Smalls proved that courage can change the course of history, and that history can just as easily try to erase it.
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