Robert Smalls: From Slavery to Congress
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Aiken County Library 314 Chesterfield St. SW, Aiken, South Carolina 29801
On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls, an enslaved African American, sailed the Confederate transport ship the CSS Planter from Charleston Harbor and surrendered it to the Union Navy; full story of the South Carolinian presented by Donald Sweeper; third in the Famous First Americans series; funded by the Friends of the Aiken County Public Library
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