Handwritten on back: "Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, 1727-1781. Mrs. A Duer Irving - owner. Present to Eleutherian Mills Historical Library, October 1961."
Tintype of Robert Smalls, who along with sixteen other slaves sailed the Confederate steamer "Planter" out of Charleston Harbor and into the hands of the U.S. Navy's South Atlantic Blockading Squadron on 13 May 1862. Smalls and his accomplices...