A slave who once couldn’t afford the $800 price to secure his family’s freedom, Robert Smalls went on to buy his former slave owner’s home after he risked everything to escape slavery.
Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort ... surrendering the ship to nearby Union soldiers, having secured his family's freedom and that of the other enslaved people on board.
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 people on ...
Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort ... surrendering the ship to nearby Union soldiers, having secured his family’s freedom and that of the other enslaved people on board.
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 ... to sail his family and a ...