Billingsley, Andrew. <br/><br/>
Yearning to breathe free :  Robert Smalls of South Carolina and his families / 
Andrew Billingsley ; foreword by James E. Clyburn. 
 - Columbia :  University of South Carolina Press,  c2007. 
 - xxvi, 253 p., [24] p. of plates :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-242) and index. 
<br/><br/>Slavery, religion, and family in the Robert Smalls legacy -- In the house of Pharaoh: growing up in bondage and privilege, 1839-1851 -- On the waterfront : growing to manhood in Charleston, 1851-1862 -- The seizure of the Planter : a family affair, May 13, 1862 -- Early duty for the union forces, 1862 -- Robert Smalls and the USS Keokuk, April 7, 1863 -- Robert Smalls and the Planter at war, 1862-1866 -- In Beaufort after the war : home, family, and community leadership -- Mr. Republican : Smalls's political leadership during Reconstruction, 1868-1877 -- They tried to cut him down : the trial of Robert Smalls, November 9, 1877 -- Consummate politician, 1877-1889 -- Robert Smalls and the Constitutional Convention of 1895 -- The Bampfields of Beaufort : Samuel and Elizabeth Bampfield and their children -- Hannah's children -- Annie Wigg's family -- A summing up : what is he to us? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781570036866 (cloth : alk. paper) 1570036861 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006038875 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA739984  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013752440  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Smalls, Robert, 1839-1915. <br/>Smalls, Robert, 1839-1915 --Family.<br/>Small family.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Legislators--United States--Biography.<br/>African Americans--South Carolina--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E 185.97.S6  / B55 2007