FREEDOM! C.S.S. Planter’s Last Voyage

C.S.S. Planter’s Last Voyage is now published! I came across Robert Smalls’s story a few years ago and was amazed I’d never heard of him. I determined to do my best to see that other Americans become aware of what he did. I thank Rick Taubold, editor of Fabula Argentea, for including this story in the April 2024 issue and helping to fulfill my quest. I’ve invented some dialog but stuck to the historical facts as best I could determine them — with one major deviation. Fort Sumter never fired on the Planter. I just couldn’t resist shooting off those big cannons in my story, however. I hope you’ll enjoy it. It’s a story of which we all may be proud. https://fabulaargentea.com/index.php/article/c-s-s-planters-last-voyage-by-robert-walton/

Robert Smalls

CSS Planter’s Last Voyage

TPT is having a sale tomorrow and Wednesday. I have a new unit to share: The Great Escape — a Civil War readers theater script, of CSS Planter’s last Voyage. Included are the script, pre-reading vocabulary activities, comprehension activities and answer keys.

The script is an historically accurate account of a true and undertold Civil War story. CSS Planter’s Last Voyage relates the amazing feat Robert Smalls achieved early in the war. Robert, a lifelong slave himself, led a crew of enslaved men in seizing a Confederate warship in 1862 and sailing it out of Charleston Harbor. They made it to the blockading Union ships with their families on board and achieved freedom

Do check it out! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/…/The-