Seven Miles To Freedom
A biography of Robert Smalls who, during the Civil War, commandeered the Confederate ship Planter to carry his family and twelve other slaves to freedom, and went on to become a United States Congressman working toward African-American advancement.
920
year: 2008
copies: 11
call number/section: 920
lexile: 870
subjects: smalls, robert, african americans, ship captains, african american legislators, fugitive slaves [X], united states, beaufort (s.c.) [X], planter (steamship), united states [X], legislators, confederate states of america
Tales Of The Talented Tenth
"Imagine a five-foot-two-inch-tall woman riding a Harley eight times across the continental United States.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: reeves, bass, african americans, fugitive slaves [X], united states marshals, african american police, indian territory, stringfield, bessie, united states [X], women motorcyclists, motorcyclists, african american women, messengers, juvenile nonfiction / comics & graphic novels / biography, juvenile nonfiction / comics & graphic novels / history, juvenile nonfiction / people & places / united states / african american, united states, biographical comics, comics (graphic works), nonfiction comics, smalls, robert, planter (steamship), slaves, ship captains, african american legislators, beaufort (s.c.) [X], creative nonfiction
Be Free Or Die
Presents the true story of former slave and United States Congressman Robert Smalls.
920
year:
copies: 6
call number/section: 920
lexile:
subjects: smalls, robert, planter (steamship), united states [X], african americans, ship captains, african american legislators, fugitive slaves [X], united states, beaufort (s.c.) [X]