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Statue location honoring Robert Smalls at SC State House picked. Here’s where it will go
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 ...
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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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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 ...