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

Uncover the inspiring story of Robert Smalls, who escaped slavery via a daring sea mission and later became a significant political figure. Gavin Newsom Halts Ronald Reagan's Environmental Law ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls ... of the former slave's work after ...