It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Civil War

The National Park Service used the sesquicentennial to shed new light on an old story. AS THE NATION PREPARED TO commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Civil War in 1961, the remarkable Robert Smalls was not part of the conversation. Born into slavery in Beaufort, S.C., Smalls worked the docks of Charleston Harbor, acquitting himself …

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