A deeper look at the Civil War hero whose self-liberation rewrote American history and reshaped Black political power in the South. Robert Smalls’ path from enslavement to statesman began in 1839 in ...
South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder’s ship ...
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’ statue should be staring down a notorious ...