“This is South Carolina right here,” Cox said. Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, and died in 1915 in his hometown a free, but somewhat forgotten man tossed aside by a ...

This recognition of Robert Smalls ... Malloy says Smalls’ legacy is still alive in South Carolina today. “He authored the legislation here that was the first free and compulsory education ...

The memorial to Civil War hero Robert Smalls is set to be erected on the Statehouse grounds. Design and location set. Now, they just need a way to pay for it.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a ...