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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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Robert Smalls: The slave who became a Civil War hero
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 CSS Plater. That night, all of the white ...
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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 ...
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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 ...