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In 1862, a slave named Robert Smalls was working as a pilot on a Confederate steamer named the Planter based in Charleston. The three officers were white, while the rest of the crew was composed of Smalls and six other slaves. The officers were supposed to stay onboard the ship according to regulations, but they…
There were a lot of interesting things I ran across while researching Galvanized that either didn’t get much coverage in the book, had to be cut or edited, or just simply weren’t relevant. The story of the Immortal 600 got brief mention in Chapter 13 “Statues of Limitation” because there is a statue in Washington,…