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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 ...
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Exclusive First Look at DEFIANT, The Incredible True Story of Robert Smalls
Meet the real-life superhero Robert Smalls in Legion M's comic Defiant ... Posing as the vessel's captain, the unlikely hero ...
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South Carolina to build first monument to an African American. Meet Robert Smalls
But Robert Smalls isn ... READ MORE | "Navy renames battleship after Lowcountry native, 5-term US representative" The idea ...
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Robert Smalls: The slave who became a Civil War hero
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 CSS Plater. That night, all of the white ...
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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ... of Smalls as a riverboat captain and ...
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Statue honoring Black hero will stare down segregationist
This image from the Library of Congress Brady-Handy photograph collection shows a portrait of Robert Smalls created ... multiple versions of Smalls as a riverboat captain and lawmaker.
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Design unveiled for Robert Smalls monument on SC Statehouse grounds
COLUMBIA — South Carolina lawmakers have chosen an artist and design for a Statehouse monument to Civil War legend Robert Smalls after ... sailed it to the Union Navy. On board and freed ...