The Civil War endures heavily in the minds of Americans up until the present day. Yet, American interest in the Civil War has produced and proliferated much historical misinformation with respect to the greater understanding of the conflict. One story that has entered the mainstream is that of Black soldiers fighting for the Confederacy alongside the white men of the South. But were there actually Black Confederates?
Read MoreWhen one thinks of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina, the mind immediately goes to Fort Sumter where on April 12, 1861 Confederate forces fired the first shots of what became the bloodiest war in American history. However, just over a year after the war began, Charleston was also the site of an extraordinary act of courage on the part of an enslaved man named Robert Smalls. Despite this, many people have never heard the story of Smalls’ actions.
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