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 ...
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 ...
Early Life and Enslavement: Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, into slavery. His mother, who was ...
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 ...