RFK Jr. writes book on slave-era hero (An uncomfortable detail is not mentioned by MSNBC)

MSNBC ^ | 10-1-2008 | Today Books

[Colonel Kangaroo]

In his new children's book, Kennedy shares the story of Robert Smalls

On a moonlit night in the spring of 1862, six slaves stole one of the Confederacy's most crucial gunships from its wharf in the South Carolina port of Charleston and delivered it to the Federal Navy. This audacious and intricately coordinated escape, masterminded by a 24-year-old sailor named Robert Smalls, astonished the world and exploded the Confederate claim that Southern slaves did not crave freedom or have the ability to take decisive action.

In his new children's book, Robert F. Kennedy recounts the story of Robert Smalls, who would go on to become a captain in the Navy.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

A quote from Smalls which probably did not find its way into the book:

" every colored man who has a vote to cast, would cast that vote for the regular Republican Party and thus bury the Democratic Party so deep that there will not be seen even a bubble coming from the spot where the burial took place."

It's also good advice today, but not a quote that the Democrats would like their children to hear.

[philled]

Thanks for posting this.

[SunkenCiv]

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