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Robert Smalls, from Escaped Slave to House of Representatives

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. · The Root · January 2013
Robert Smalls, from Escaped Slave to House of Representatives
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"Robert Smalls made a daring sea escape during the Civil War as a slave and went on to serve five terms in Congress as a Representative from South Carolina."

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