Seven Miles to Freedom
The Robert Smalls Story
By Janet Halfmann; Duane Smith (Illustrator)
(Lee & Low Books, Hardcover, 9781600602320, 40pp.)
Publication Date: April 2008
Categories: Transportation - Boats, Ships & Underwater Craft, Biography & Autobiography - Cultural Heritage
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Description
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.











