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The life of Robert Smalls (1839 – 1915) My race needs no special defense, for the past history of them in this country proves them to be the equal of any people anywhere. All they need is an equal chance in the battle of life.
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Robert Smalls story presentation - January 2013

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The  life  of  Robert  Smalls  (1839  –  1915)  

My  race  needs  no  special  defense,  for  the  past  history  of  them  in  this  country  proves  them  to  be  the  equal  of  any  people  anywhere.  All  they  need  is  an  equal  chance  in  the  battle  of  life.  

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‘Swonga’  

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¡  Robert  works  his  way  up  thru  the  ranks      

¡  Stevedore,  loading  and  unloading    

¡  Repair  and  rig  sails    

¡  Becomes  a  foreman    

¡ Wheelman-­‐status  

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Married  Hannah  Jones  Dec  24,  1856  

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¡  In  1858  Elizabeth  is  born.    

¡  Freedom  is  more  than  just  personal  now.    

¡  Arranges  to  buy  freedom  of  wife  and  daughter  for  $800  cash  from  Kingman.  

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¡  If  captured  .  .  .  blow  up  the  ship.    

¡  Robert  knows  the  waterways,  the  codes,  the  signals,  and  the  lay  of  the  mines.    

¡  Robert  will  wear  the  Captain’s  hat  and  coat.    

¡  It  will  be  a  family-­‐affair.    

¡  Just  be  ready  for  the  “right”  time.  

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Admiral  Du  Pont  wrote,  “.  .  .  The  pilot  is  quite  intelligent  and  gave  some  valuable  information  about  the  abandonment  of  Stono.  .  .”  

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That  boat  that  the  seven  ni**ers  captured  down  to  Charleston  runs  up  here  some  times.  It  is  in  the  government  service  it  is  the  Planter  and  it  is  the  handsomest  steamer  that  runs  on  this  river  it  is  one  hundred  and  twenty  feet  long  I  should  judge  and  about  twenty  five  feet  beam  it  has  three  decks  and  two  gang  ways  on  each  side  of  the  lower  deck  it  has  a  high  pressure  engine  and  side  wheels  and  to  take  it  all  in  all  it  is  the  prettiest  craft  that  travels  these  waters  and  if  the  ni**ers  got  what  she  was  worth  they  can  be  comfortably  without  work  the  rest  of  there  days  for  she  had  over  fifty  thousand  dollars  worth  of  freight  on  board  when  captured.    Private  Rufus  P.  Munyan,  Co.  D  of  the  18th  Conn.  Infantry.    

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In  August  1862  two  Union  generals  sent  Smalls  and  missionary  Mansfield  French  to  Washington,  D.C.  to  meet  with  Secretary  of  War  Stanton  and  President  Lincoln.  Their  request  to  recruit  5000  black  troops  was  soon  granted.  Charismatic  and  articulate,  Smalls  was  sent  on  a  speaking  tour  of  New  York  to  raise  support  for  the  Union  cause.  There  Smalls  was  presented  an  engraved  gold  medal  by  “the  colored  citizens  of  New  York”  for  his  heroism,  his  love  of  liberty  and  his  patriotism.  

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¡  First  public  reading  may  have  been  in  Port  Royal  

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Engagement  at  Secessionville,  May  31,  1862    Occupation  of  Edisto  Island,  June  3,  1862    Action  on  Simmon’s  Bluff,  June  23,  1862    Affair  on  Skull  Creek,  S.C.,  September  24,  1862    Affair  at  Kirk’s  Bluff,  October  18,  1862  

Skirmish  at  Coosawatchie  and  Engagements  at  near  Pocotaligo,  S.C.,  October  21,  1862    Expedition  up  St.  Mary’s  River,  January  23  -­‐  February  1,  1863    The  Campaign  of  the  Carolinas  December  31,  1864  -­‐  March  24,  1865  and  April  10  -­‐  May  28,  1865    Destruction  of  Locomotives  and  Rolling  Stock  Between  Sumterville  and  Camden,  S.C.  April  1,  1865    Expedition  to  Camden,  S.C.,  April  5  -­‐  25,  1865  

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While  in  Philadelphia  Smalls  was  ejected  from  a  public  streetcar  by  whites.      Local  Philadelphians  were  outraged.    City  streetcars  were  integrated  by  1867.    91  years  later  Rosa  Parks  refused  to  give  up  her  seat  on  a  city  bus.  

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April  1904  

Robert  Smalls  served  five  terms  as  a  U.S.  Congressman  during  Reconstruction.  For  nearly  20  years  he  served  as  U.  S.  Collector  of  Customs  in  Beaufort,  S.C.,  where  he  lived  as  owner  in  the  house  in  which  he  had  been  a  slave.    

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2004  

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My  race  needs  no  special  defense,  for  the  past  history  of  them  in  this  country  proves  them  to  be  the  equal  of  any  people  anywhere.  All  they  need  is  an  equal  chance  in  the  battle  of  life.