As darkness enveloped the waters of Charleston Harbor, Robert Smalls realized that he would have no better chance to escape slavery than that morning. It was May 13, 1862, and Smalls did not ...

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Smalls, considered one of the ... Horseshoe commemorating former students Robert Anderson, Henrie Monteith Treadwell and James Solomon Jr., who broke the color barrier at the school during ...

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 should be staring down a ...

This image from the Library of Congress Brady-Handy photograph collection shows a portrait of Robert Smalls created between 1870 and 1880. The Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — A group studying ...

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