robert smalls

Lt. Colonel Allen Allensworth was an officer in the United States Army, achieving the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Representative House of Representatives Legislative Branch. Member Republican Party. About Us Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the United States Senate. Robert Smalls, on the thirteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty commandeered a Confederate warship, the Planter, from Charleston harbor and piloted the vessel to cheering seamen of the Union blockade, thus securing his place in the annals of Civil War heroics. Slave, pilot, businessman, statesman, U.S. Alphonso Michael Espy, usually called Mike Espy, was a United States political figure. was an African American slave who became a naval hero at the same time he freed himself and his family in May 1862 from slavery. With his wife and children, and a Robert Smalls Forum. Search Forums Start Topic. Enter a Search Term. Hide Search. This forum needs a kickstart Representative House of Representatives Legislative Branch. Member Republican Party. About Us Joice Heth was an African American slave who was exhibited by P. T. Barnum with the claim that she was 161 years old. Sanford, Jr. is an American Republican politician who has been Governor of South Carolina since 2003. Robert Smalls was an escaped slave who rose to the rank of Major General in the civil war and who later became one of the first African Harold Washington was an American lawyer and politician who became the first African American Mayor of Chicago, serving from 1983 until his robert smalls death in 1987. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, was an early American statesman and a constitutional delegate. Benjamin Montgomery was an influential American inventor, landowner, and freedman.