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The Former Slave Who Stole a Confederate Ship to Achieve His Family's Freedom
One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...
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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort ... surrendering the ship to nearby Union soldiers, having secured his family's freedom and that of the other enslaved people on board.
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African American Civil War hero to be honored outside SC’s state grounds
Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort ... in the pale moonlight before surrendering the ship to nearby Union soldiers, having secured his family’s freedom and that of the other enslaved people on ...
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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
The proposal approved unanimously Wednesday by the Robert Smalls Monument Commission now ... having secured his family's freedom and that of the other enslaved people on board.
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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls ... to sail his family and a ...