Military
Robert Smalls 1839–1915
In 1862, an enslaved man stole a Confederate warship, and sailed his family to freedom.
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Military
Harriet Tubman c. 1820–1913
In 1863, a woman led a military raid that freed more than 700 enslaved people in one night.
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