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01540aam a22003013i 4500 001 218FFAF4FE5E11E2B6A414D3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130806010419 008 121219s2013 scub 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9781611172829 020 $a 1611172829 035 $a (OCoLC)822227580 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCQ $d SUC $d BWX $d OCLCQ $d SILO 043 $a n-us-sc 082 04 $a 813.6 $b M54f 100 1 $a Meriwether, Louise. 245 10 $a Fragments of the ark : $b a novel / $c Louise Meriwether. 250 $a Paperback edition. 264 1 $a Columbia, South Carolina : $b University of South Carolina Press, $c 2013. 300 $a 342 pages : $b maps ; $c 23 cm 520 8 $a "Based on the inspirational life of Robert Smalls, Fragments of the ark follows the exploits of runaway slave Peter Mango, his family and a band of fellow escaped slaves as they commandeer a Confederate gunboat out of Charleston Harbor and deliver it to the Union navy ... after the war Mango buys a home from his former master and becomes a political organizer for voting rights. Eventually he is elected delegate to South Carolina's state convention to rewrite its constitution"--Back cover. 651 0 $a South Carolina $x History $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Smalls, Robert, $d 1839-1915 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a African American men $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Slaves $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017021119.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=218FFAF4FE5E11E2B6A414D3DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search