Robert Smalls was a real-life legend — an enslaved man who stole a Confederate ship, navigated it past enemy lines, and ...

Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress. Before those laudable accomplishments, though, Smalls had to secure ...

A new production is exploring the achievements of Black hero Robert Smalls and how his legacy creating free public schools is being tarnished by the culture wars. Race and Identity Reporter A war ...

Robert Smalls made a daring sea escape during the Civil War as a slave and went on to serve five terms in Congress as a Representative from South Carolina.

At 23-years-old, Robert Smalls won freedom for himself and his family. The Beaufort County man went from slavery to pilot during the Civil War before being elected to Congress. He is the ...

O n May 12, 1862, Robert Smalls escaped enslavement with an ingenious plan. As a ship’s pilot who helped vessels navigate in and around South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor, Smalls was working ...

In 1862, Robert Smalls, an enslaved man, commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War to bring slaves to freedom. Later, he was elected to the state Legislature and Congress.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) — A state panel has decided where a monument memorializing Civil War hero Robert Smalls will stand on the South Carolina State House grounds and what it will look like. The ...

The Robert Smalls statue will be the first monument to honor an African American person. ¹South Carolina will soon erect its first individual statue for a Black person on its Statehouse lawn in ...

A bust of Robert Smalls, who will soon be the first African American individual with a statue at the South Carolina Statehouse, is displayed Reconstruction Era National Historic Park, Thursday ...

Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort and died in 1915 in his hometown a free, but somewhat forgotten man who lived a life unimaginable to a woman holding her son born into slavery.

In 1862, Robert Smalls, an enslaved man, commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War to bring slaves to freedom. Later, he was elected to the state Legislature and Congress.