Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and South Carolina lawmaker.

Basil Watson calls it an honor to create a likeness of Smalls, the first Black person honored with a statue at the SC State ...

Artist Basil Watson is creating the first statue of an African American, Civil War hero Robert Smalls, to be placed on South ...

Before he was a South Carolina lawmaker recognized as a champion of civil rights, Robert Smalls escaped slavery in Charleston ...

Smalls became a celebrity in the North and had a $4,000 bounty put on his head by the Confederacy. In addition to securing his freedom, Small was awarded $1,500 as a reward for the ship and its ...

On May 12, 1862, Robert Smalls escaped enslavement with an ingenious plan. As a ship’s pilot who helped vessels navigate in and around South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor, Smalls was working on ...

Robert Smalls was born in Beaufort in 1839 to Lydia Polite, an enslaved woman. Smalls later purchased his childhood home, located at 511 Prince Street, from his former master.

Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, and died in 1915 in his hometown a free, but somewhat forgotten man tossed aside by a Southern society determined to keep Blacks inferior.

Next year, a new monument honoring Civil War hero Robert Smalls will be unveiled outside the South Carolina Statehouse. Smalls escaped slavery during the war and went on to serve in the U.S. House of ...

The Beaufort County School District honored the 2025 Principal and Assistant Principal of the Year at the district’s ...

Rehearsals take place for “Finding Freedom: The Journey of Robert Smalls," the Charleston Gaillard Center's first-ever commissioned theatrical work. Amos Adams/Provided ...

After all, the Robert Smalls House is more than a building and garden. It is an incredible opportunity for our nation to tell the full American story, one that is compelling in its glory and its pain.