honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder's ship and sail his family and a dozen others ...
Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort ... surrendering the ship to nearby Union soldiers, having secured his family's freedom and that of the other enslaved people on board.
Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort ... surrendering the ship to nearby Union soldiers, having secured his family’s freedom and that of the other enslaved people on board.