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Sarah Rector: The 11-Year-Old Black Girl Who Became an Oil Millionaire
Sarah Rector’s story begins with Creek Freedmen history, allotment land misread as worthless, and an oil boom that made a Black child a national spectacle — and a test of
The Enslaved Pilot Who Stole a Confederate Ship
Robert Smalls was born enslaved in South Carolina, stole the Confederate steamer Planter in 1862, sailed families to freedom, served the Union, and later became a U.S. co