BEAUFORT COUNTY, Sc. (WTOC) - Friday marks the 185th birthday of Beaufort hero Robert Smalls. To celebrate, a local artist is throwing a birthday party that all are welcome to attend. At Friday ...

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 ...