![]() Their recklessness inspired Smalls to plan the daring heist. They covered for the white captain and crew when they were drunk or off carousing on shore. He and the other enslaved men on the crew of the CSS Planter handled everything on the boats. There he was given work piloting boats and became masterful at maneuvering through South Carolina’s waterways. Smalls’ owner realized he was smart but, since he couldn’t have a fearless slave on the plantation, he sent him away to Charleston. However, Smalls never forgot those early feelings of freedom instead of making him more compliant, experiencing the cruelty of enslavement made him more defiant. Eventually Smalls’ owner sent him from the big house out to the fields, believing once Smalls experienced the brutal reality of enslavement he would become he would become more submissive. He didn’t understand the rules were different for him than for the white children from the ”big house” he was allowed to spend most of his time playing with. This graphic novel chronicles the life of Robert Smalls, an enslaved man from South Carolina who pulled off a most daring flight to freedom.ĭespite growing up on a plantation Smalls’ early life was not as harsh as it was for most enslaved children. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Once again Joel Christian Gill brings us the story of an important figure in Black history whose achievements are not well known. ![]()
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