Fragments of the Ark follows the exploits of runaway slave Peter Mango, his family, and a band of fellow escaped slaves as they commandeer a Confederate gunboat out of Charleston harbor and deliver it
A stirring recreation of the Civil War years recounts the adventures of Peter Mango, an escaped South Carolina slave, who steals a gunboat and pilots a group of unforgettable runaways to freedom. Repr
Robert Smalls, born a slave in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, gained fame as an African American hero of the American Civil War. The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls tells the inspirational story of S
The child and grandchild of slaves - and therefore forbidden by law to read and write - Harriet Jacobs was defiant in her efforts to gain freedom and to document her experience in bondage. She suffer
