Stripping Confederate Ties, the U.S. Navy Renames Two Vessels
Briefly

One night in 1862, as the Civil War raged, an enslaved mariner named Robert Smalls seized an opportunity.When the enlisted crew of a Confederate steamer disembarked for a night of carousing in Charleston, S.C., Mr. Smalls, the ship's pilot, gathered his family and the other enslaved sailors and their families.
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