Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story

by Janet Halfmann

Book Overview

The true story of Robert Smalls, a slave steamboat wheelman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War and escaped with his family and crew to freedom.

Growing up a slave in South Carolina, Robert Smalls always dreamed of the moment freedom would be within his grasp. Now that moment was here.

Robert stood proudly at the Planter's wheel. Only seven miles of water lay between the ship and the chance of freedom in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1600609864
• ISBN13: 9781600609862
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Lee & Low Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.8" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6