Robert Smalls statue to stand near visitors’ entrance to SC Statehouse
Civil War hero Robert Smalls could one day stand just outside the Statehouse visitors’ entrance, clad in the three-piece ...
Design unveiled for Robert Smalls monument on SC Statehouse grounds
The memorial to Civil War hero Robert Smalls is set to be erected on the Statehouse grounds. Design and location set. Now, ...
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'Pint-sized stallion of sass' takes trot around Beaufort after galloping away from home
Two horses, one of them a pint-sized stallion of sass, decided to gallop away from their home in South Carolina and take an ...
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'A Strike for Freedom' celebrates local inclusions in Underground Railroad program
The National Parks Service is hosting an event to celebrate the recent inclusions of Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie in the ...
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A Complicated Past
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’ ...
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CIVIL WAR
Robert Smalls’s statue will be the first to honor an individual Black citizen on South Carolina State House grounds. In his famous 1858 speech, Abraham Lincoln warned that only civil war would ...
African American Civil War hero to be honored outside SC’s state grounds
A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ...