Download Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero AudioBook Free
Facing death alternatively than enslavement - a story of 1 man's triumphant choice and ultimate climb to countrywide hero. It had been a light May morning hours in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862, the next yr of the Civil War, when a 23-year-old slave known as Robert Smalls did the unthinkable and boldly seized a Confederate steamer. With his partner and two small children hidden up to speed, Smalls and a small team ran a gauntlet of closely equipped fortifications in Charleston Harbor and delivered the valuable vessel and the substantial guns it taken to nearby Union forces. For being unsuccessful was a death sentence for everyone. Smalls' courageous and clever take action freed him and his family from slavery and immediately made him a Union hero while simultaneously challenging much of the country's view of what African-Americans were willing to do to get their freedom. After his get away, Smalls served in various naval promotions off Charleston as a civilian fishing boat pilot and eventually became the first dark captain of Army ship. In a particularly poignant instant Smalls even bought the house that he and his mom had once offered in as house slaves.
