Episode 53: Robert Smalls & the Death of Lincoln: A Civil War Story

Tracing The Path: The Connected 20th Century
04/05/2024 29 min Temporada 1 Episodio 53
Episode 53: Robert Smalls & the Death of Lincoln: A Civil War Story

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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. 

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