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 ...

Members voted unanimously during a Jan. 8 meeting of the Robert Smalls Monument Commission ... the 147-foot side-wheeler steamship the Planter in Charleston Harbor and sailed it to the Union ...

Two artifacts will be on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield to celebrate Black ...

Smalls grew up in downtown Charleston. She worked at Roper Hospital for 15 years coordinating special events and catering functions and also worked in hotel hospitality. “I’ve done food ...

A clay rendering of the Robert Smalls monument. Basil Watson, of Georgia, design selected was selected to sculpt the statue. Provided photo COLUMBIA, S.C. A monument honoring a former Black ...

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 ...

On the evening of May 12, 1862, the Confederate ship Planter sailed into Charleston’s harbor, and the captain and officers, breaching protocol, disembarked for a night of socializing. It was the rare ...

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 ...

A clay rendering of the Robert Smalls monument. Basil Watson, of Georgia, design selected was selected to sculpt the statue.