Moonlight Helmsman: Robert Smalls' Amazing Escape by Richard Maule

By Richard Maule

MOONLIGHT HELMSMAN Robert Smalls’ outstanding get away by means of Richard Maule

2017 recipient of five nationwide awards for historic Fiction, African American Literature, and most sensible First Novel.

He used to be on my own in dreaming it may be performed, yet on a moonlit evening in 1862, the slave Robert Smalls stole the accomplice flagship and sailed off to freedom. Richard Maule’s novel, Moonlight Helmsman, brings to lifestyles some of the most remarkable tales in our nation’s background.

Born into bondage, Smalls longs for the sailor’s lifestyles, and by the point the Civil battle starts, he's assigned to pilot a insurgent send in Charleston Harbor. via a dramatic chain of occasions, Robert conspires to thieve the boat, taking his family and friends alongside. His assorted staff comprises his strong-minded spouse Hannah, his preacher-turned-engineer Deke, and a desirable madman named Spider Jefferson. Their complex plot calls for mind's eye, stealth, and the brazenness to defy definite death.

Taking the reader via treacherous channels, explosive mines, and enemy forts, the writer leads us to a nail-biter of a climax. trustworthy to the evidence of heritage, Moonlight Helmsman is a gripping and encouraging testimony to the ability of the human will. Kirkus reports says, “Maule skillfully renders Smalls’ existence via fictional embellishment, powerfully portraying his indomitable eager for liberty… a riveting tale, and a unfortunately missed sliver of yank historical past… a continuing weave of old research and fictional drama starring an African-American hero."

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