What a Teacher's Letters Reveal About Robert Smalls, Who Stole a Confederate Ship to Secure His Freedom From Slavery
Source: Smithsonian
A white Baptist woman named Harriet M. Buss taught Civil War hero Robert Smalls (pictured) how to read and write. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Images via Wikimedia Commons under public domain When Harriet M. Buss, a white, educated Baptist woman from Massachusetts, moved to South Carolina to accept a position as a teacher in March 1863, she likely didn’t anticipate that one of her students, Robert Smalls, would…
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