Robert Smalls

Robert Smalls () adalah seorang pengusaha, penerbit dan politikus asal Amerika Serikat. Lahir dalam perbudakan di Beaufort, Carolina Selatan, ia membebaskan dirinya sendiri, krunya dan keluarganya pada Perang Saudara Amerika dengan mengkomandani kapal angkut Konfederasi, CSS Planter, di pelabuhan Charleston, pada 13 Mei 1862, dan berlabuh dari perairan yang dikuasai Konfederasi ke blokade AS yang berada di dekatnya. Ia kemudian mengarahkan kapal tersebut ke enklave yang dikuasai pasukan Uni di kawasan Beaufort-Port Royal-Hilton Head, dimana kapal tersebut dijadikan kapal perang pasukan Uni. Contoh dan keberaniannya membantu mendorong Presiden Abraham Lincoln untuk menerima para prajurit Afrika-Amerika dalam Union Army.

Bacaan tambahan 
 Coker, P. C., III. Charleston's Maritime Heritage, 1670–1865: An Illustrated History. Charleston, S.C.: Coker-Craft, 1987. 314 pp.
 Downing, David C. A South Divided: Portraits of Dissent in the Confederacy, Nashville: Cumberland House, 2007. 
 Foner, Eric ed., Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction Revised Edition. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996). . Between 1865 and 1876, about 2,000 blacks (including men of color or mixed race) held elective and appointive offices in the South. A few are relatively well-known, but most became obscure because official state histories prepared after Reconstruction omitted them; whites dominated state governments and suppressed the black population and its history. Foner profiles more than 1,500 black legislators, state officials, sheriffs, justices of the peace, and constables in this volume.
 Gabridge, Patrick, Steering to Freedom (Penmore Press, 2015). . Novel about Robert Smalls' life.
 Kennedy, Robert F., Jr. Robert Smalls, the Boat Thief (New York: Hyperion, 2008). . A picture book illustrated by Patrick Faricy.
 Rabinowitz, Howard N. Southern Black Leaders of the Reconstruction Era (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982) 
 Sterling, Dorothy. Captain of the "Planter": The Story of Robert Smalls (Doubleday & Co. Garden City, 1958)
 Thomas, Rhondda R. & Ashton, Susanna, eds (2014). The South Carolina Roots of African American Thought, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. "Robert Smalls (1839–1915)," pp. 65–70.
 Uya, Okon Edet, From Slavery to Public Service: Robert Smalls, 1839–1915 (Oxford University Press. New York, 1971)

Pranala luar 

 Entry from the House of Representatives

 Robert Smalls: Former Slave and Civil War Hero, Hagley Museum and Library
 In the episode "The Wheel"  of the podcast The Memory Palace, published on February 10, 2016, Nate DiMeo tells the story of Robert Smalls.
 

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