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.
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The Sun News on MSNFrom slavery to Congress, Robert Smalls’ fight for freedom soon cemented on State House groundsAt 23-years-old, Robert Smalls won freedom for himself and his family. The Beaufort County ... “It should be a true picture ...
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South Carolina to build first monument to an African American. Meet Robert Smallshonoring 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 ...
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