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 ...
Robert Smalls was born into slavery in Beaufort ... posing as a confederate soldier to commandeer the Confederate ship CSS Planter. Smalls was victorious in leading his family and others aboard ...
A monument honoring a former Black Congressman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War is slated to stand outside of the visitor’s entrance of the State House. The Robert Smalls ...
A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls ... bondage, Smalls stole a Confederate ship during ...
This image from the Library of Congress Brady-Handy photograph collection shows a portrait of Robert Smalls ... Born into bondage, Smalls stole a Confederate ship during the Civil War to sail ...
The Robert Smalls statue will face the State House ... how he commandeered the Confederate Ship Planter in 1862 to bring 15 other runaway slaves to Union forces, served as a delegate to the ...