Early Life and Enslavement: Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, into slavery. His mother, who was ...
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 ...
The Robert Smalls statue will face the State ... The monument will have a panel with a biography, including Smalls being born into slavery, how he commandeered the Confederate Ship Planter in ...