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A Complicated Past
On the evening of May 12, 1862, the Confederate ship Planter sailed into Charleston’s harbor, and the captain and officers, breaching protocol, disembarked for a night of socializing. It was the rare ...
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Statue location honoring Robert Smalls at SC State House picked. Here’s where it will go
The Robert Smalls statue will face the State House ... how he commandeered the Confederate Ship Planter in 1862 to bring 15 other runaway slaves to Union forces, served as a delegate to the ...
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African American Civil War hero to be honored outside SC’s state grounds
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls ... Born into bondage, Smalls stole a ...
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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina's first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ... Smalls stole a Confederate ship during ...