MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCIV) — A Long Island, New York resident with Lowcountry ... has come together to produce "Freedom At Dawn: Robert Smalls's Voyage Out of Slavery." The book will be ...

In a report that merged admiration with racial bigotry, the New York Tribune proclaimed ... political office at all levels—including Robert Smalls: The former slave who had secured his ...

Charleston Harbour, South Carolina, 1862. A man named Robert Smalls is staging a daring escape from slavery. Smalls had been forced to work as pilot on a prized confederate navy ship called the ...