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Robert Smalls represented which political party during the Reconstruction era?
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Robert Smalls represented the Republican Party during the Reconstruction era. Smalls was a former slave who escaped from slavery and served in the United States Navy during the Civil War. After the war, he was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives and the United States House of Representatives. As a Republican, Smalls was a supporter of the Reconstruction policies of the Radical Republicans.
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