South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ...
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Robert Smalls: The slave who became a Civil War hero
Charleston Harbour, South Carolina, 1862. A man named Robert Smalls is staging a daring escape from slavery. Smalls had been forced to work as pilot on a prized confederate navy ship called the ...
Statue location honoring Robert Smalls at SC State House picked. Here’s where it will go
Robert Smalls, an enslaved man, commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War to bring slaves to freedom. Later, he ...
S.C. monument to honor Civil War hero Robert Smalls
State lawmakers are preparing for a new legislative session, and one of their top priorities involves South Carolina’s ...
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Editorial: A welcome settlement in Beaufort that balances history, livability
As reporter Tony Kukulich notes, a settlement agreement has taken shape in the 2-year-long legal battle over the historic Robert Smalls House, a battle that pitted the Historic Beaufort ...