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The Former Slave Who Stole a Confederate Ship to Achieve His Family's Freedom
One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...
Altoona Mirror24d
Statue honoring Black hero will stare down 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 ...
Live 5 News1mon
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 ...
Times Union1mon
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 ...
The Herald SC1mon
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 ...
Post and Courier1mon
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 ...
Philadelphia Tribune1mon
South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
COLUMBIA, S.C. — 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 ...