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Robert Smalls: Yearning to Breathe Free
July 26, 2007
Andrew Billingsley professor, sociology, University S. Carolina
Mae Gentry reporter, Atlanta-Journal Constitution

Andrew Billingsley discusses his new book, Yearning to Breathe Free, the biography of Robert Smalls, a South Carolina slave who became a Civil War hero and US Congressman. Mae Gentry, Atlanta-Journal Constitution writer and expert on the African American experience, moderates.

History | Politics & Public Affairs
Biographies | Civil War | Human Rights | Robert Smalls | African American | Military & Warfare | Non-Fiction
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