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Narrated by: JD Jackson

Unabridged — 8 hours, 19 minutes

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Facing death rather than enslavement-a story of one man's triumphant choice and ultimate rise to national hero.

It was a mild May morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, when a twenty-three-year-old slave named Robert Smalls did the unthinkable and boldly seized a Confederate steamer. With his wife and two young children hidden on board, Smalls and a small crew ran a gauntlet of heavily armed fortifications in Charleston Harbor and delivered the valu...

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Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero