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.
At 23-years-old, Robert Smalls won freedom for himself and his family. The Beaufort County ... “It should be a true picture ...
honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder's ship and sail his family and a dozen others ...
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 ...