In early April 1862, shortly after Union forces had taken Fort Pulaski in Savannah Harbor, 14-year-old Susie Baker was taken aboard a Federal gunboat and delivered, along with other fugitive slaves, to St. Simon’s Island, Ga. Susie had been “born under the slave law in Georgia.” In 1862 she became part of, and early witness …
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