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Robert Smalls

By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Saturday, April 5, 2008

On May 13, 1862 slave Robert Smalls dressed as the Planter’s captain, and with help from family and other slaves, he commandeered the boat. As a ship pilot, Smalls knew the necessary signals that would allow the Planter to get by the Rebel-held Fort Sumter.

Slavery

By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Friday, November 16, 2007

Until the cleansing of the Civil War, slavery was a fact in the United States. The bloodshed of the Civil War brought an end to slavery and kept this nation as an undivided union of states.