Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress. ... as well as a potential movie about Smalls.

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker and Snowfall actor Malcolm M. Mays has been tapped by Amazon Studios to write a new script for the film Steal Away about the daring theft and escape of Robert Smalls, a slave ...

It's an extraordinary story that's beenAt the height of the Civil War, on May 12, 1862, Robert Smalls—an enslaved harbor pilot in Charleston, South Carolina—car ...

Graphic novel about Robert Smalls of SC is launching Juneteenth 2025, ... There is also an upcoming feature movie in development based on this graphic novel, spearheaded by Legion M, ...

But Robert Smalls isn't just being honored for his audacious escape. He spent a decade in the U.S. House, helped rewrite South Carolina's constitution to allow Black men equality after the Civil ...

The Navy has renamed the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Confederate victory, to the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate steamship.

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.