This is a photo of Robert Smalls, a former enslaved person turned businessman, publisher and politician.
Smalls was born into enslavement in Beaufort, South Carolina in 1839. When he became a teenager, his mother convinced her master to rent him out for work as a deckhand on a… pic.twitter.com/HdBOHCxCxP
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) December 10, 2023
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