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- ↑ Andrew Billingsley, Professor of Sociology African American Studies and Institute for the Families in Society Andrew Billingsley, Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families
- ↑ Larry Koger: Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860 , 2011