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 white supremacist ...

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 ...

Prosecutors said the 19-year-old from St. Helena Island stored a switch-modified pistol under a pillow at the Cross Creek Apartments.

A new law permits the D.C. Council to establish a commission that will give “reparations” to descendants of enslaved people.

I especially love this one: "Robert Smalls' journey from slave to U.S. congressman began with a famous act of defiance. In ...

He also portrays Capt. Robert Smalls, USN. Smalls was an enslaved African-American who became a hero for the Union during the Civil War. He escaped slavery on a captured Confederate ship and ...

It was the rare moment Robert Smalls, a fiercely intelligent 22-year-old slave, had hoped for. In the dark hours before dawn, with the help of the African-American crew, he fired up the ships’ boilers ...

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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 ...

Moore is a direct descendant of Robert Smalls, who made history by commandeering the steamboat Planter in 1862. Smalls later went on to become a South Carolina congressman during the ...

I especially love this one: "Robert Smalls' journey from slave to U.S. congressman began with a famous act of defiance. In 1862, the South Carolina native was serving as a wheelman aboard a ...