“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 ...

This image from the Library of Congress Brady-Handy photograph collection shows a portrait of Robert Smalls created between 1870 and 1880. (Library of Congress via AP) ...

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 ...