Last fall when I was traveling in South Carolina, my friend Robin, who is a civil rights attorney, told me about Robert Smalls and showed me a plaque in his honor in Charleston. I have to admit I had ...

Inside a small art studio not far from Atlanta, 67-year-old Basil Watson is shaping history. The Jamaican-born artist is creating a sculpture of Robert Smalls, the historic South Carolina lawmaker who ...

In the predawn hours on May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls commandeered the Confederate steamer Planter from the Charleston docks and escaped slavery alongside a small crew of freedom seekers. Through the ...

The likeness of Robert Smalls, the escaped slave turned South Carolina lawmaker, will be remembered as the first African-American person honored with a statue at the State House at the hands of a ...

Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts ...

The South Carolina Capitol grounds will soon include a statue of Robert Smalls, a formerly enslaved Civil War hero, among the statues of five white men, most with ties to the Civil War or Jim Crow.

For South Carolina readers, especially here in the Lowcountry, the story of Robert Smalls is an integral piece of the region’s (and nation’s) history. Now, Smalls’ story as one of the most legendary ...