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 ... READ MORE | "Charleston leaders to honor Civil War hero Robert Smalls." In May 1862, during the Civil War, the steel-nerved ...

COLUMBIA — South Carolina lawmakers have chosen an artist and design for a Statehouse monument to Civil War legend Robert Smalls after ... steamship the Planter in Charleston Harbor and sailed ...

A clay rendering of the Robert Smalls monument ... Another panel will have the quote from Smalls from the 1895 South Carolina Constitutional convention, “My race needs no special defense ...

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 ...

Another panel will have the quote from Smalls from the 1895 South Carolina Constitutional convention, “My race needs no special defense, but the past history of them in this country proves them ...

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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 ...