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Robert Smalls, Volume 3: Tales of the Talented Tenth by Joel Christian Gill

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5.0

Set during reconstruction, a South Carolina Black man tells a northern friend the story of Robert Smalls and how he piloted a group of enslaved people to freedom aboard the Confederate ship, The Planter.
Depiction of a whipping, family separation, a shooting (imagined). Use of "Negro" and a blackface emoji to depict the n-word. An understandably angry traitor amongst them is depicted as someone who should be forgiven and given a possibility of redemption.
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