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Picture Definition of a hero: A person who saves someone in grave danger who could be hut or killed if not helped //**
 * // My Story Board Chriscf10
 * // Hero: Robert Smalls //**
 * // Notes: //**
 * **// A slave stationed on the confederate boat called the Planter //**
 * **// Hijacked the Planter and brought it to union forces //**
 * **// Used Confederate whistle signals to get past watch towers //**
 * **// Smalls mimicked the captain in the wheel house not to raise suspicion //**
 * **// Raised to White flag just has an Union boat was going to open fire on the boat //**
 * **// Union //****// called him a hero //**
 * **// Was the first African American to become a captain in the Union Navy //**
 * **// After War he became a South Carolina Republican Congressman //**


 * Many people think that Superman and Spider man were the only heroes but that’s not true. Many people are heroes there are heroes dating back all the way to the first century. Heroes don’t have to be famous or cartoons anyone could be a hero including you. I had to choose one hero from the 19th century. There is hundreds if not thousands of heroes in the 19th century, so to choose only one that was a task, but I did finally found one his name is Robert Smalls. Smalls is a hero because he risked his live to save people that were in danger of dying or being hurt. I can prove that Robert Smalls is a hero because he risked his live to save other in danger of dying of being hurt.**


 * Robert Smalls lived in the 19th century around the Civil War time. He was living in a state that slavery was still legal. Smalls is my hero because he risked his live to save someone who was in grave danger of being hurt or killed. In his instance he rescued slaves using a stolen Confederate boat before he entered Union waters. His actions were important because the boat that he stole was full of weapon bound for confederate forts. He also saved many slaves of having to work long hour in fields.**


 * Robert Smalls was stationed on a Confederate Navy ship. He decided on night while all the white men were sleeping off the ship that he and other slaves stationed on the ship decided to take it. This fit my definition of a hero because he risked his live to save the other slaves on board from being killed if the ship were in a battle. Smalls was brave while taking the ship because he had to get it by several watch towers using whistle signals ,if he got one wrong they might have set the //Planter// to the bottom of the Ocean. Without Smalls there could have been hundreds of Union and slave deaths because of what the //Planter// would have done in combat.**
 * Smalls after taking the //Planter// went to another Confederate ship that had many slaves on it including his family. Smalls rescued all the slaves on board and then turned the ship over to Union forces. This action that Smalls performed met my definition of a hero because he put his life in danger to save other on the Confederate ship that was housing about a dozen salves. Without his heroic action to save a dozen of slaves those men and woman could have died in the hands of Confederate forces. He really put his life in danger to save those slaves. Smalls had a lot of luck to rescue guarded slaves and not get spotted. He could have been shot at, at any time but he was not because of his clever actions. This impacted many lives because most of those dozen slaves he saves were his own family. He could have lost his own family if he had not had the guts or courage to risk his life to save them.**
 * Smalls was not considered a hero by Confederate forces in matter of fact they had a $ 60,000 bounty on his head. The Confederate forces tried to get the Union to give up the //Planter// along with Smalls because they thought that he was a criminal. They tried to stop Smalls from being considered a hero by ordering the President to give him up because he has stolen property that belong to them and that he was no hero but a criminal. The Confederate force thought that he was to be punished for his actions but the Union didn’t. Smalls was not squished because he had the Union government on his side saying that they would not give them Smalls.**
 * His action benefited all people after him because he was the first black captain on the navy and he was a black congressman. He set the record that anyone could become any rank in the military and even hold political positions in the government. He was a hero in many people’s minds back then that liked to Union the Confederate didn’t like him that much.**
 * If my person was alive today they could give me advice about how solving the Iraq war problem. He would help me because, he considered a war hero back in the 19th century. He could tell me useful techniques on how to overpower the militant forces in Iraq. He was a war hero in the 19th century I can’t see why he can’t now even thought the technologies are different than what they are today I can’t see why that he can’t give me useful strategies that he used in the 19th century.**