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

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina's first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls ... War to sail his family and a ...

South Carolina Statue Honoring Black Hero Robert Smalls Will ... Born into bondage, Smalls stole a Confederate ship during the Civil War to sail his family and a dozen others to freedom.

A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ... Smalls stole a Confederate ship during the Civil War to sail his ...