Episode 53: Robert Smalls & the Death of Lincoln: A Civil War Story
Robert Smalls was the defiant slave who decided freedom was a better choice. That is when his and...
Tracing The Path: The Connected 20th Century · Dan R. Morris - 20th Century Historian
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Show Notes
Robert Smalls was the defiant slave who decided freedom was a better choice. That is when his and President Abraham Lincoln's lives would be intertwined, from the Civil War all the way through death. In this episode we discover Lydia Polite, Harriet Buss, Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, the Freedsman Bureau, Parris Island, Andrew Johnson, Joe Louis and the Harlem Globetrotters.