Cate Lineberry is a former staff writer and Europe editor for National Geographicandthe web editor of Smithsonian, and her work has appeared in the New York Times. She lives in the greater Washington, DC, area.
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Facing death rather than enslavement-a story of one man's triumphant choice and ultimate rise to national hero. It was a mild May morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, when a twenty-three-year-old slave named R... SEE MORE