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South Carolina to Erect Its First-Ever Statue Honoring African American: A Civil War Hero Who Posed as a Confederate Soldier to Steal a Slaver's Ship
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 ...
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Design, location chosen for Robert Smalls monument on South Carolina State House grounds
A state panel has decided where a monument memorializing Civil War hero Robert Smalls will stand on the South Carolina State House grounds and what it will look like. The monument will be located in ...
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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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Design, location chosen for Robert Smalls monument on South Carolina State House grounds
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) — A state panel has decided where a monument memorializing Civil War hero Robert ... Smalls was born a slave in Beaufort but was sent to Charleston to work on the CSS ...
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Statue location honoring Robert Smalls at SC State House picked. Here’s where it will go
A clay rendering of the Robert Smalls monument ... including Smalls being born into slavery, how he commandeered the Confederate Ship Planter in 1862 to bring 15 other runaway slaves to Union ...