One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - 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 ...

As reporter Tony Kukulich notes, a settlement agreement has taken shape in the 2-year-long legal battle over the historic Robert Smalls House, a battle that pitted the Historic Beaufort ...

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 ...

South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a ...

COLUMBIA — South Carolina lawmakers have chosen an artist and design for a Statehouse monument to Civil War legend Robert Smalls after several months of discussions. They've also picked a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) — 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.

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