SYMHC Classics: Robert Smalls - From Contraband to Congress

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 July 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The second of our 2016 episodes on Robert Smalls. After his daring and impressive escape from slavery, Smalls was considered to be contraband, which was a term used for formerly enslaved people who joined the Union. But this was the beginning of an impressive career as a free man.

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0:27.7	Head to iHeartRadio.com slash I Heartland today.
0:33.1	Happy Saturday, listeners!
0:34.6	Today, we are finishing our two-part Saturday classic on Robert Smalls,
0:38.9	who served in both the South Carolina and U.S. governments
0:42.5	after escaping from enslavement during the Civil War.
0:45.7	This episode originally came out February 17th, 2016.
0:50.5	Enjoy!
0:53.8	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class.
0:56.3	A production of iHeartRadio.
1:04.3	Hello, and welcome to the podcasters.
1:06.5	I'm Tracy B. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry.
1:09.7	Today, we're picking up where we left off in the story of Robert Smalls,
1:13.9	so to very, very briefly recap part one.
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