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Robert Smalls Claims
In 1862, the second bloody year of the American Civil War, a 22-year-old slave named Robert Smalls accomplished an unthinkable feat of cunning, deception and bravery: he stole a ship. But it wasn't any ship that this cunning black man decided tp nab. No, he knew what he needed and had accurately planned to get

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