Seanna Adcox

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Seanna Adcox

In this Sunday, July 1, 2012, photo, from left, Freddie Meyer, great-great grandson of Robert Smalls, places a wreath in front of Smalls' grave with help from fellow descendant Carolyn Meyer-Little and Edgar Williams, one of the Robert Smalls Association reunion organizers, during the reunion near Tabernacle Baptist Church in Beaufort, S.C. Robert Smalls was an African American slave during and after the Civil War, who freed himself, his crew and their families by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, the CSS Planter, and sailing it to freedom. (AP Photo/The Beaufort Gazette, Sarah Welliver)

In this Sunday, July 1, 2012, photo, from left, Freddie Meyer, great-great grandson of Robert Smalls, places a wreath in front of Smalls' grave with help from fellow descendant Carolyn Meyer-Little and Edgar Williams, one of the Robert Smalls Association reunion organizers, during the reunion near Tabernacle Baptist Church in Beaufort, S.C. Robert Smalls was an African American slave during and after the Civil War, who freed himself, his crew and their families by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, the CSS Planter, and sailing it to freedom. (AP Photo/The Beaufort Gazette, Sarah Welliver)

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