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

This recognition of Robert Smalls ... Malloy says Smalls’ legacy is still alive in South Carolina today. “He authored the legislation here that was the first free and compulsory education ...

Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, and died in 1915 in his hometown a free, but somewhat forgotten man tossed aside by a Southern society determined to keep Blacks inferior.

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 ...