Impossible Escapes: Civil War Season 1 Episode 4 Robert Smalls: Steamboat to Freedom
- June 23, 2022
- 41 min
Enslaved aboard the Confederate ship the CSS Planter Robert Smalls has learned the skills of a naval captain. One night when he and his enslaved crewmates are left alone on the ship during the height of the war they need to decide whether to risk it all and make a run for the nearby US Navy.