Yearning to Breathe Free
Subtitle: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families
Contributors: James E. Clyburn (Foreword)
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: May 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781570036866
Subjects: Biography: general; Slavery & emancipation; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; History; Biography / Autobiography; History: American; South Carolina; Historical - U.S; People of Color; United States - Civil War; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; 1839-1915; African Americans; Biography; Family; Legislators; Smalls, Robert,; United States
Description: Robert Smalls, son of Lydia Polite, was born 5 April 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina. He and his mother were slaves of Henry McKee. He married Hannah Jones (1826-1883) in Charleston, South Carolina in 1858.