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Yearning to Breathe Free Robert Smalls of South
Carolina and His Families
by Andrew Billingsley
This is a well-researched, comprehensive biography of a slave
whose bravery and cunning enabled him to escape from slavery
by absconding with a weapons-laden steamboat with the entire
slave crew and their families. He went on to captain Federal
ships in the Civil War and, during Reconstruction, became a U.S.
Congressman. This is an easy read that gives the exciting details
of his life and career while showing his love and devotion to
his family and his sentiment toward the family of his former
masters.
6" x 9" 253 pages, index, photos, hardbound ISBN
978-1-57003-686-6
#488 Yearning to Breathe Free $34.95  |
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Robert Smalls Sails to Freedom
By Susan Taylor Brown, Illustrated
by Felicia Marshall
This is a children's book, written on a third grade level. The
type is large and every page contains beautiful, full-color,
realistic paintings. It narrates Smalls' life from childhood
to his daring escape in 1862. An Afterword tells what
happened to Mr. Smalls in his later life.
6" X 8½" 48 pages, Illustrated, Paperbound
ISBN 0-8225-6051-8
#489 Robert Smalls Sails to Freedom $5.95 |
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Civil War Blunders
By Clint Johnson
The story of Robert Smalls is one of the episodes in this entertaining,
informative tome.
There was little funny about a war in which some 620,000 humans
died. But it was finding humor amid devastation thatkept Civil
War soldiers marching toward the enemy. Union or Confederate,
those in command proved adept at goofing up. Many were drunks,
couldn't speak English,didn't know a cannon's breech from its
muzzles. There are over 65 stories of such characters as Col.
Ed Baker, who told his Federals to follow the plume of his hat
if they wanted to find the war—and sent them over a clipff
in a panicked retreat...and Gen. Felix Zollicoffer, who wore
a white raincoat so the opposing Federals could see him—bu
not his eyeglasses so he could see them.
6" x 8" 328 pages, index, paperbound ISBN 0-89587-163-7
#231 Civil War Blunders $13.95 |
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Flashbacks Volume One
A Cartoon of the
District of Columbia
Patrick M.
Reynolds brings history
to life with a sense of humor. His exciting drawings put you
on the scene with the conflicts, madness, plus the wheeling and
dealing that resulted in the location and construction of the
U.S. capital city, despite
all the bickering, petty jealousies, and down-right stupidity. This volume is almost out of print, hence the higher price.
11¾" x 7½" 106 pages, full color illustrations,
index, paperbound
ISBN 0-932514-31-6
#F1 Cartoon History of DC $25.00 |
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DC Neighborhoods Flashbacks
Vol. Two Artist-writer Patrick M. Reynolds takes
you to the Washington that tourists seldom see The U.S. capital
expanded with the growth of public transportation into such areas
as Shepard Park, Takoma Park, Chevy Chase, Kalorama, Dupont Circle,
Adams Morgan, Capital Hill, LeDroit Park, Tenleytown, Brookland,
and others. Stories in this book go back to the explorations
of Capt. John Smith in the 1600s and the Indian Wars of early
Virginia, continuing into the 20th century with the introduction
of the cherry trees to Washington and the end of segregation
in public schools.
11¾" x 7½" 106 pages, full color illustrations,
index, paperbound ISBN 0-932514-33-2
#F2 Cartoon History of DC $14.95 |
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