In part two of our series, “Hidden Histories,” we get the story of Robert Smalls, who stole a Confederate ship and sailed to freedom. Full Episode Sunday, Jun 29 ...

The only way Robert Smalls could ensure that his family would stay together was to escape. St. Martin's Press Darkness still blanketed the city of Charleston in the early hours of May 13, 1862, as ...

Rose Morton, Tracing your roots, Robert Smalls graphic novel. Season 51 Episode 51 ... I start doing my ancestry search on family trees and stuff and going through that.

The Maj. Gen. Robert Smalls arrived in Charleston Harbor on March 16, 2021. The LSV-8 was named in honor of Robert Smalls, who was a 23-year-old slave during the Civil War when he commandeered a ...

Robert Smalls published a newspaper, ... an escaped slave who secured his freedom during the Civil War by commandeering a Confederate ship to secure his and his family's freedom.

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 notorious white supremacist ...

But once this project came to light, he started collaborating with Smalls’ great-great-grandson, Michael B. Moore, to learn as much as he could about the family’s history.

Graphic novel about Robert Smalls of SC is launching Juneteenth 2025, ... Michael B. Moore, to learn as much as he could about the family’s history.

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.

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 Southern society determined to keep Blacks inferior.