Robert Smalls' Escape to Freedom - The Root
Feb 6, 2024 · Rebels of Black History: The Great Escape of Robert Smalls Meet one of the most badass figures in American history. A man who stole a Confederate warship and delivered …
From slavery to Congress, Robert Smalls’ fight for freedom soon ...
Aug 29, 2024 · In honor of his impact on SC, a monument of Robert Smalls will be on state house grounds, marking the first African American to be a monument.
Design, location chosen for Robert Smalls monument on South
Jan 10, 2025 · 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.
South Carolina to build first monument to an African American.
Oct 23, 2024 · He spent a decade in the U.S. House, helped rewrite South Carolina's constitution to allow Black men equality after the Civil War and then put up a valiant but doomed fight …
Robert Smalls Biography – Childhood, Life History, Achievements
Robert Smalls made a significant impact on American history by demonstrating bravery, leadership, and resilience in the face of adversity, and by advocating for civil rights and …
South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will …
Jan 9, 2025 · COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue …
Remembering Robert Smalls – Slave, Pilot of the Planter, First …
Feb 19, 2020 · On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls, a 23-year-old slave, who served as the pilot of the Confederate armed transport, CSS Planter, led eight fellow slaves in an audacious flight to …
Robert Smalls: Yearning to Breathe Free | GBH - WGBH.org
Jul 26, 2007 · Andrew Billingsley discusses his new book, *Yearning to Breathe Free*, the biography of Robert Smalls, a South Carolina slave who became a Civil War hero and US …
Lawmakers want statue of Black Civil War hero Robert Smalls …
Mar 8, 2024 · COLUMBIA — A bipartisan group of South Carolina legislators wants to add a statue on Statehouse grounds commemorating Civil War hero and lawmaker Robert Smalls. If …
S.C. monument to honor Civil War hero Robert Smalls - WRDW
Aug 29, 2024 · Smalls was born into slavery in Beaufort, sailed himself, his crew, and their families to freedom on a Confederate ship during the Civil War and later served South …