Voices of the Civil War Episode 23: "Robert Smalls"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- In December 1863, a lifelong slave named Robert Smalls became the first black captain of a United States vessel. From that point onward, he would earn $150 per month, making him one of the war's highest paid black soldiers. But Smalls' most memorable accomplishment came a year earlier, in one of the most audacious acts of the Civil War.