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The remarkable journey of Robert Smalls, from slavery to statesman
Uncover the inspiring story of Robert Smalls, who escaped slavery via a daring sea mission and later became a significant political figure. Raiders fire coach Antonio Pierce after he goes 4-13 in ...
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Robert Smalls: The slave who became a Civil War hero
Charleston Harbour, South Carolina, 1862. A man named Robert Smalls is staging a daring escape from slavery. Smalls had been forced to work as pilot on a prized confederate navy ship called the ...
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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls ... of the former slave's work after ...