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Statue location honoring Robert Smalls at SC State House picked. Here’s where it will go
The Robert Smalls statue will face the State House and ... served as a state representative and state senator, and was elected to Congress in 1874. Another panel will have the quote from Smalls ...
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A Complicated Past
It was the rare moment Robert Smalls, a fiercely intelligent 22-year-old slave ... (Park Service sites are designated by presidential proclamation or an act of Congress.) But the reasons also run ...
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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 ...
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Maritime workers' union endorses Democrat Michael B. Moore for Congress
Moore, a Democrat running for Congress in South Carolina's 1st Congressional ... The Democrat challenger is the great-great-grandson of Robert Smalls, the founder of the Republican party in ...