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

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

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

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

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

Michael Boulware Moore, his great-great-grandson and author of the book “ Freedom on the Sea: The True Story of the Civil War Hero Robert Smalls and His Daring Escape to Freedom ,” joins host Anthony ...

An accident has occurred on Robert Smalls Parkway near Nova Drive in Beaufort, according to the Beaufort County Sheriff’s ...

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Smalls escaped slavery during the war and went on to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Smalls escaped slavery during the war and went on to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. The story of Civil War hero Robert Smalls Next year, a new monument honoring Civil War hero Robert ...