Robert Smalls : the boat thief

Title
: 
Robert Smalls : the boat thief

Author
: 
Kennedy, Robert F., Jr., 1954-

ISBN
: 
9781423108023

Edition
: 
1st ed.

Publication Information
: 
New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2008.

Physical Description
: 
viii, 40 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 29 cm.

Series
: 
American heroes.

Reading Level
: 
NC 1260 L Lexile

Personal Subject
: 
Smalls, Robert, 1839-1915.

Subject Term
: 
African Americans -- Biography.
 
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography.
 
Slaves -- United States -- Biography.

Geographic Term
: 
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American.

Added Author
: 
Faricy, Patrick.

Summary
: 
"Robert Smalls was a true American patriot. Despite the burdens America laid upon him, he loved our country. He believed in the "inherent justice" of American democracy and in the principles espoused in the Declaration of Independence"--Afterword.


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Stillwater Public LibraryJ 921 SMALLSHold