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Robert Smalls
1862/1863
Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket
Boston, United States
On the night of May 12-13, 1862, Robert Smalls and sixteen others escaped enslavement by stealing the CSS Planterand successfully sailing it out of Charleston Harbor past five checkpoints, before surrendering it to the United States Navy, which was blockading Charleston.
Portrait printed in black ink within gold oval border within gold rectangular border. Below oval, printed in black ink "ROBT. SMALL.
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Details
- Title: Robert Smalls
- Date Created: 1862/1863
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts
- Publisher: Buford, J.H. publisher
- Rights: No known rights restrictions. Credit: Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket, 2004.04.353
- Medium: Print, Lithograph
- Collection: Freedom Rising Civil War Collection
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