Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls

"Here’s the story of a real-life American superhero, spun into a graphic novel: Robert Smalls, who escaped enslavement by commandeering a Confederate ship in Charleston, S.C., and sailing it to Union-held territory. (And that’s before Smalls became a Union captain of the same ship he had taken – and before he became a U.S. congressman! What a life – and it will take three volumes of Defiant to tell the whole tale.) Author Rob Edwards knows just how to spin out Smalls’ story in comic book style, with powerful and deeply empathetic illustrations by Sean Damien Hill and Alex Paterson. Multiple generations of my family devoured this one."