Summary of Cate Lineberry's Be Free or Die

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 Robert Smalls was a enslaved man who was planning on escaping slavery with his family. He had been planning this for years, and his chance came when he was assigned to the Planter, a Confederate steamer.
#2 The Planter was a coastal steamer used to transport personnel, ordinance, and supplies between various locations in and around the harbor. It was docked at Charleston’s Southern Wharf, near where the Cooper and Ashley rivers converge to form Charleston Harbor.
#3 The Planter was a Confederate steamer that was used to transport supplies and slaves. It was used in an attempt to break the blockade, and it was extremely risky. Smalls had to impersonate the captain and navigate past several heavily armed fortifications without raising an alarm.
#4 The Planter was a Confederate steamer that was built two years earlier. She was made of live oaks and red cedar, and had three decks. The steamer’s navigation was controlled from the pilothouse, and a single large smokestack emerged from the top deck in front of the pilothouse.

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• historical

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• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 18 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669386667
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Cate Lineberry's Be Free or Die
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#1

Robert Smalls was a enslaved man who was planning on escaping slavery with his family. He had been planning this for years, and his chance came when he was assigned to the Planter, a Confederate steamer.

#2

The Planter was a coastal steamer used to transport personnel, ordinance, and supplies between various locations in and around the harbor. It was docked at Charleston’s Southern Wharf, near where the Cooper and Ashley rivers converge to form Charleston Harbor.

#3

The Planter was a Confederate steamer that was used to transport supplies and slaves. It was used in an attempt to break the blockade, and it was extremely risky. Smalls had to impersonate the captain and navigate past several heavily armed fortifications without raising an alarm.

#4

The Planter was a Confederate steamer that was built two years earlier. She was made of live oaks and red cedar, and had three decks. The steamer’s navigation was controlled from the pilothouse, and a single large smokestack emerged from the top deck in front of the pilothouse.

#5

The Planter was a ship that Ferguson leased to the Confederacy for $125 per day. The crew's duties included carrying supplies, weapons, men, and dispatches around the harbor and the surrounding area for the Confederate cause.

#6

Smalls’s plan was to steam the Planter through the harbor undetected. He knew that his skin color would make this extremely difficult, but he had to try. He could not operate the large steamer on his own, and he could not take the vessel using other men and keep the plan a secret from the original crew.

#7

The crew of the Planter was prepared to do anything to preserve their secret. They were fortunate in their timing, as the ship was about to reach a Union ship. Its sailors were now required to provide help or face punishment from the Navy.

#8

The men on the Planter finished two weeks of intense labor just hours before the escape. They had been removing cannon from Cole’s Island near the mouth of the Stono River, loading them onto the steamer and transporting them to James Island just across the Ashley River from Charleston.

#9

The crew was able to get the steamer ready to leave, but they ran into a problem when two of the crew members decided not to participate in the escape. The rest of the crew was angry and worried that Jones and Gibbes would reveal the plans, but they quickly regrouped.

#10

The group of men planned to take the women and children to another vessel nearby. They could not risk anyone making a sound that would draw attention to the Planter.

#11

The Planter left Charleston around three o’clock in the morning, and the crew prepared the ship for leaving by adding wood to the fires and waiting for the water in the boilers to heat. They would get under way as soon as they had enough steam.

#12

The Planter, with 16 people on board, left Charleston, and the slaves they were carrying, behind them. They had reached the northern end of James Island, and were now close to Fort Johnson, which was occupied by the Confederates.

#13

The Planter made it past Fort Sumter, and continued towards the Union fleet. When it did not turn east towards Morris Island, the Confederate guards at Fort Sumter realized it was headed towards the Union vessels off Charleston Bar.

#14

The Planter approached the heavily armed Union ships outside Charleston, and the crew frantically tried to signal the Onward, a 174-foot, three-masted clipper ship, with a white bedsheet. The ship’s captain, acting volunteer lieutenant John Frederick Nickels, saw the flag and immediately ordered his men to stand down.

#15

The two men were eventually able to get the steamer to a Union ship, and as they were bringing it alongside, the men on board the Planter realized they had actually made it to a Union ship. They were finally free from slavery.