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The John Batchelor Show / Fitzhugh Brundage, author of A Fate Worse Than Hell, discusses the capture of three black sailors from the Isaac Smith in 1863, which forced the Confederacy to decide if black men in uniform were POWs or runaway slaves. While white sailors were quickly ex

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