{"id":7690,"date":"2016-11-08T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=7690"},"modified":"2016-11-08T03:38:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T03:38:06","slug":"captain-robert-smalls-figure-of-american-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=7690","title":{"rendered":"Captain Robert Smalls: Figure of American Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Robert Smalls\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross\/files\/2013\/01\/100facts_rsmalls-227x300.jpg\" width=\"136\" height=\"180\" \/>The change did not come easily for black citizens around the world. Over the centuries, there have been countless proponents of equality in the United States of America: Long before Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr. Barack Obama entered history, a 22-year-old slave named Robert Smalls accomplished an unthinkable act of bravery and audacity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAs the title suggests, this text will explain how Captain Robert Smalls became a figure of the American civil war. In what degree has his participation to the Navy been crucial for the victory of the Union Forces? And why &#8211; according to some historians &#8211; did the life and audacity of Captain Robert Smalls build the foundation of Afro-American Emancipation? One can notice that he had also an important role in the representation and participation of state politics during the reconstruction of the USA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The complete article is available at the following link:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?attachment_id=7691\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7691\">Robert Smalls &#8211; An exceptional person in Afro-american history<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The change did not come easily for black citizens around the world. Over the centuries, there have been countless proponents of equality in the United States of America: Long before Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr. Barack Obama entered history, a 22-year-old slave named Robert Smalls accomplished an unthinkable act of bravery and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diaspora","category-point-de-vue-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7693,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690\/revisions\/7693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}