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Robert Smalls helped establish the first free and compulsory public school system in..?

  • The entire U.S.

  • New York

  • South Carolina

  • Charleston

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Robert Smalls helped establish the first free and compulsory public school system in South Carolina. He was a former slave who became a war hero and politician. He was instrumental in passing the South Carolina Education Act of 1868, which created the first free and compulsory public school system in the state.
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