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 ...
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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Descendant of slave who stole rebel ship named Charleston museum head
The great-great-grandson of a slave who commandeered a Confederate ship and took it to Union ... Moore is a direct descendant of Robert Smalls, who made history by commandeering the steamboat ...
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A Complicated Past
On the evening of May 12, 1862, the Confederate ship Planter sailed into Charleston’s harbor, and the captain and officers, breaching protocol, disembarked for a night of socializing. It was the rare ...
Editorial: A welcome settlement in Beaufort that balances history, livability
Historic Beaufort Foundation and the National Trust for Historic Preservation have a deal to end a fight over the future of ...
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Robert Smalls: The slave who became a Civil War hero
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 CSS Plater. That night, all of the white ...
Robert Smalls statue to stand near visitors’ entrance to SC Statehouse
Civil War hero Robert Smalls could one day stand just outside the Statehouse visitors’ entrance, clad in the three-piece suit ...
Design unveiled for Robert Smalls monument on SC Statehouse grounds
The memorial to Civil War hero Robert Smalls is set to be erected on the Statehouse grounds. Design and location set. Now, ...