Exciting Events #8 CD - From Slave to Hero and Others

Your Story Hour proudly presents this set of dramatized  stories in our "Exciting Events" series that the whole family can enjoy!

Listen as Robert Smalls, born a slave, becomes a boat pilot on the South Carolina waterfront during the Civil War era.  In a daring act, he commandeers a valuable Confederate steamboat and makes a run for freedom!

Follow the story of Evelyn Brand, an attractive young women in London's Victorian era who went on to spend sixty-five years of her life in service to the people of India as the beloved missionary "Granny Brand."

Hear how Phillis Wheatley was sold as a little girl in a slave auction, yet became a celebrated poet and honored by George Washington!

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