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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
Smalls helped the Union for the rest of the Civil War ... hug on the proposed site for a statue of Reconstruction hero Robert Smalls on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Columbia, S.C. Credit: AP ...
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African American Civil War hero to be honored outside SC’s state grounds
Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort ... to get through Confederate checkpoints in the pale moonlight before surrendering the ship to nearby Union soldiers, having secured his family’s freedom ...
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Statue location honoring Robert Smalls at SC State House picked. Here’s where it will go
The Robert Smalls statue will face the State House and ... Ship Planter in 1862 to bring 15 other runaway slaves to Union forces, served as a delegate to the South Carolina Constitutional ...
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Design unveiled for Robert Smalls monument on SC Statehouse grounds
Members voted unanimously during a Jan. 8 meeting of the Robert Smalls Monument Commission to ... in Charleston Harbor and sailed it to the Union Navy. On board and freed with him during that ...
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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort ... in the pale moonlight before surrendering the ship to nearby Union soldiers, having secured his family's freedom and that of the other enslaved ...