Freedom Ship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freedom Ship write by Doreen Rappaport. This book was released on 2006-10-01. Freedom Ship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Samual and his family are born slaves. Every day they look beyond the harbor filled with Confederate ships, to the Atlantic Ocean, where the Union ships are--and potentially, their freedom. If only they could get to those ships somehow....Then, on May13, 1862, Samuel and his family risk it all to be free. /DIV DIVBased on a true story, Doreen Rappaport weaves a riveting tale of a boy and his family aboard the gunboat Planter. Captained by Robert Smalls and loaded with fellow slaves, the ship flees to the Union fleet to gain freedom from slavery and deliver much-needed ammunition to the Union Navy. Rappaport's suspenseful account, illustrated with the moody paintings of Curtis James, creates a vivid and relatable picture of this little-known tale of the civil war.
The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls
The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls write by Louise Meriwether. This book was released on 2018-02-15. The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The true story of an enslaved African American man who escaped to freedom and became a military and political leader 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 Small's life as a slave, his boyhood dream of freedom, and his bold and daring plan as a young man to commandeer a Confederate gunboat from Charleston Harbor and escape with fifteen fellow slaves and family members. Smalls joined the Union Navy and rose to the rank of captain and became the first African American to command a U.S. service ship. After the war Smalls returned to Beaufort, bought the home of his former master, and began a long career in state and national politics. This new edition of The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls, originally published in 1971, features Louise Meriwether's original narrative, now illustrated by the colorful paintings of renowned Southern artist Jonathan Green.
Jump Ship to Freedom
Jump Ship to Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jump Ship to Freedom write by James Lincoln Collier. This book was released on 2012-05-01. Jump Ship to Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Young Daniel Arabus and his mother are slaves in the house of Captain Ivers of Stratford, Connecticut. By law they should be free, since Daniel’s father fought in the Revolutionary army and earned enough in soldiers’ notes to buy his family’s freedom. But now Daniel’s father is dead, and Mrs. Ivers has taken the notes from his mother. When Daniel bravely steals the notes back, a furious Captain Ivers forces him aboard a ship bound for the West Indies—and certain slavery. Even if Daniel can manage to jump ship in New York, will he be able to travel the long and dangerous road to freedom? The second book in the Arabus family saga finds young Daniel trying to retrieve the notes that ensure his and his mother’s freedom, until he is forced aboard a boat and headed for certain slavery in the West Indies.
Sailing to Freedom
Sailing to Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sailing to Freedom write by Timothy D. Walker. This book was released on 2021-04-30. Sailing to Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1858, Mary Millburn successfully made her escape from Norfolk, Virginia, to Philadelphia aboard an express steamship. Millburn's maritime route to freedom was far from uncommon. By the mid-nineteenth century an increasing number of enslaved people had fled northward along the Atlantic seaboard. While scholarship on the Underground Railroad has focused almost exclusively on overland escape routes from the antebellum South, this groundbreaking volume expands our understanding of how freedom was achieved by sea and what the journey looked like for many African Americans. With innovative scholarship and thorough research, Sailing to Freedom highlights little-known stories and describes the less-understood maritime side of the Underground Railroad, including the impact of African Americans' paid and unpaid waterfront labor. These ten essays reconsider and contextualize how escapes were managed along the East Coast, moving from the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland to safe harbor in northern cities such as Philadelphia, New York, New Bedford, and Boston. In addition to the volume editor, contributors include David S. Cecelski, Elysa Engelman, Kathryn Grover, Megan Jeffreys, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Mirelle Luecke, Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Michael D. Thompson, and Len Travers.
From Slave Ship to Freedom Road
From Slave Ship to Freedom Road - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Slave Ship to Freedom Road write by Julius Lester. This book was released on 1999-12. From Slave Ship to Freedom Road available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the African American slave experience through paintings beginning with the Middle Passage and concluding with images of post-Civil War emancipation
