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As we approach the end of Black History Month, here s one more icon whose historic victories were as big as his lived life. Robert Smalls was born into slavery on
The vessels will be named for Robert Smalls, a mariner who commandeered a Confederate ship to freedom from slavery, and Marie Tharp, an ocean geologist who studied continental drift.
On April 5, 1839, Robert Smalls, Civil War hero, businessman and political figure, was born in Beaufort. He was born and raised in slavery as his mother, Lydia Polite, was