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On This Day: Southern slave Robert Smalls steals the steamboat Planter, spirits it through... (1862)

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On May 13, 1862: Southern slave Robert Smalls steals the steamboat Planter, spirits it through Confederate lines and hands it to the United States Navy, who quickly commission it as the gunboat USS Pl...

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