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Joel Christian Gill
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes celebrated cartoonist JOEL CHRISTIAN GILL—author of the beloved Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History—for a discussion of the latest title in his acclaimed Tales of the Talented Tenth series, Robert Smalls. He will be joined in conversation by fellow acclaimed, award-winning cartoonists TIM FIELDER and NATE POWELL.
Do you know the story of the slave who sailed himself to freedom? For the third book in the bestselling Tales of the Talented Tenth series, Joel Christian Gill brings Robert Smalls to life by telling the true story of the enslaved African who pulled off one of the most daring and largest heists of the Civil War. Come along for the adventure as Robert earns a job working for the C.S.S. Planter, escapes to freedom, goes on to become a first-generation Black politician, and makes history by writing and leading the passage of legislation that led to the United States’ first free and compulsory public school system.
Tales of the Talented Tenth is a historical comic series that focuses on the adventures of amazing African Americans in action.
