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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist

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 who dismantled most of the former slave's work after the Civil War.

WJBF Augusta on MSN · 18h

Design, location chosen for Robert Smalls monument on South Carolina State House grounds

A state panel has decided where a monument memorializing Civil War hero Robert Smalls will stand on the South Carolina State House grounds and what it will look like.

The State (Columbia, SC) on MSN · 1d

Statue location honoring Robert Smalls at SC State House picked. Here’s where it will go

Robert Smalls, an enslaved man, commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War to bring slaves to freedom. Later, he was elected to the state Legislature and Congress.

southcarolinapublicradio · 1d

Panel picks artist, location for Robert Smalls statue on SC Capitol complex

A bipartisan panel of South Carolina lawmakers chose a visible area close to the Statehouse visitor's entrance for the location of the future monument to Robert Smalls.

WCBD Charleston on MSN · 1d

SC panel approves location, design for Robert Smalls monument

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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, ...

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 ...

South Carolina selects first monument at statehouse to honor an African American hero

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A Complicated Past

Talk about it. Talk about it so you can understand.” Not far away, in Beaufort, South Carolina, where historians once considered a Park Service site more than 15 years ago, Robert Smalls’ ...

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