Next year, a new monument honoring Civil War hero Robert Smalls will be unveiled outside the South Carolina Statehouse. Smalls escaped slavery during the war and went on to serve in the U.S. House of ...

Before he was a South Carolina lawmaker recognized as a champion of civil rights, Robert Smalls escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship. Eventually, he would become a top ...

Last fall when I was traveling in South Carolina, my friend Robin, who is a civil rights attorney, told me about Robert Smalls and showed me a plaque in his honor in Charleston. I have to admit I had ...

Basil Watson, a Jamaican-born sculptor, is creating the statue of Smalls. The likeness of Robert Smalls, the escaped slave turned South Carolina lawmaker, will be remembered as the first African ...

Extras: meet the director, reflections, bravery, family, childhood, activism, importance of history, Prince Street house, the planter, politics, descendants, MG ...

Smalls escaped slavery during the war and went on to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. The story of Civil War hero Robert Smalls Next year, a new monument honoring Civil War hero Robert ...