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.
The Robert Smalls statue will face the State House and the ... The monument will have a panel with a biography, including Smalls being born into slavery, how he commandeered the Confederate Ship ...
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.
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 ...