Download or read book The Escape of Robert Smalls written by Jehan Jones-Radgowski and published by Capstone Editions. This book was released on 2019 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of the bloody U.S. Civil War, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls carried out a dangerous plan. Smalls secretly took control of a Confederate steamboat, the Planter, and sailed the ship toward a Union fleet. A little known story of courage, hope, and peril during the Civil War, this true account celebrates an unsung American hero.