Robert Smalls
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title:
Robert Smalls
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Robert Smalls was an American politician who was born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina. During the American Civil War, the still enslaved Smalls commandeered a Confederate transport ship in Charleston Harbor and sailed it from the Confederate-controlled waters of the harbor to the U.S. blockade that surrounded it. He then piloted the ship to the Union-controlled enclave in Beaufort–Port Royal–Hilton Head area, where it became a Union warship. In the process, he freed himself, his crew, a
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Former slave and American politician (1839–1915)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smalls
date created:
2005-08-17T22:34:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T14:13:26Z
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