Robert Smalls: The Life of the Escaped Slave Who Commandeered a Confederate Ship during the Civil War

by Charles River Editors

62 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 16, 2026

About the author

Charles River Editors is an independent publisher of thousands of ebooks on Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and Apple iBookstore & provider of original content for third parties.

Reviews

[Vickie Woodard · Rating 4 out of 5]

EXCEPTIONAL MAN

It's one thing to sail off to freedom with other slaves on a ship stolen from the Confederate navy, its quite another to be an elected congressman during Reconstruction.
Both require bravery.

[Z. M. Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love learning

Thank you for this wonderful lesson. It is 3:00 in the morning and I should be sleeping but I had to finish reading about Mr Smalls