A North Charleston man's attempt to 'scare' another with firearm ended in homicide, witnesses say
North Charleston police release details about the March 8 fatal shooting at the Gables mobile home park of Ashley Phosphate ...
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Hear the story of Robert Smalls at Charleston Museum
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The Charleston Museum will host a special storytelling event about Robert Smalls on Wednesday for young children. Museum Educators will tell the story of Robert Smalls ...
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Black History Month Minute: Robert Smalls
Early Life and Enslavement: Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, into slavery. His mother, who was ...
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Descendant of slave who stole rebel ship named Charleston museum head
Moore is a direct descendant of Robert Smalls, who made history by commandeering the steamboat Planter in 1862. Smalls later went on to become a South Carolina congressman during the ...
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MARRIAGE OF GEN. ROBERT SMALLS.
From the Charleston News and Courter. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may ...
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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 ...
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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 ...