THE DELAWARE VALLEY CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE
Presents a New FREE Historical Seminar
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 7:00 – 8:00 PM via ZOOM
“Be Free or Die! – The Saga of Robert Smalls”
Presented by Jerry Carrier
On May 13, 1862, a 23-year-old slave demonstrated that his inability to read or write did not keep him from seizing a Confederate warship and delivering it – with 17 other enslaved people – to the federal squadron that was blockading Charleston Harbor.
This astounding feat was only the first chapter in the legendary career of Robert Smalls. After winning his freedom the old-fashioned way – by taking it – Smalls went on to be a celebrity symbol of President Lincoln’s policy of emancipation, the first African-American captain of a U.S. Navy warship, and a ground-breaking lawmaker in both the South Carolina Legislature and the U.S. Congress.
It is little wonder that an admirer in the African-American community of Beaufort, SC, remarked that “Smalls ain’t God, but he’s young yet.”
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