"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.
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