Amazon Studios has landed director Charles Burnett (To Sleep with Anger) to helm their upcoming slavery drama Steal Away, per a report from Deadline.
Smalls also authored legislation that made South Carolina the first state to provide free and compulsory public school system in the United States.
The movie will tell the story of the daring theft and escape of Robert Smalls, who was a slave in 1862 Charleston, South Carolina.
During the Civil War, Smalls was aboard the CSS Planter, a Confederate ship.
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