num_pages: 48
description: Tells the story of Robert Smalls, a black slave who piloted a captured Confederate gunboat carrying his family and other runaway slaves past Fort Sumter to freedom.
language: English
title: Robert Smalls Sails to Freedom
titlecomplete: Robert Smalls Sails to Freedom (On My Own History)
characters: Robert Smalls
genres: Childrens, African American
ratings_count: 14
series: On My Own History
publisher: First Avenue Editions