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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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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
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 notorious white supremacist ...
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Robert Smalls: The slave who became a Civil War hero
Charleston Harbour, South Carolina, 1862. 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 ...
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African American Civil War hero to be honored outside SC’s state grounds
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - 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 notorious ...
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Statue location honoring Robert Smalls at SC State House picked. Here’s where it will go
The Robert Smalls statue will face the State House and the George Washington statue. But the location in the northeast quadrant of the grounds between the African American history monument and the ...
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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
This image from the Library of Congress Brady-Handy photograph collection shows a portrait of Robert Smalls created between 1870 and 1880. (Library of Congress via AP) ...
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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
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