Decades later, I learned that South Carolina’s segregated school system denied me and other Black students the lesson that Beaufort native Robert Smalls, an enslaved man, was a Civil War hero ...

More than 100 years after his death, Robert Smalls — a Civil War hero, educator and South Carolina politician — will be ...

"Civil War Hero Robert Smalls Seized the Opportunity to Be Free." The Washington Post. 2 March 2012. U.S. House of Representatives. "Smalls, Robert." Accessed 21 August 2018. By Alex ...

How Robert Smalls sailed his crew and family to freedom during the Civil War During the transatlantic slave trade, Charleston, South Carolina was one of the largest slave ports in the United States.

Robert Smalls Parkway is a section of U.S. Highway 170 that runs through Beaufort. A bust of Robert Smalls is located at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Downtown Beaufort, where the Civil War hero is ...

But at the height of the Civil War, ... “Hidden Histories,” we get the story of Robert Smalls, who stole a Confederate ship and sailed to freedom. Full Episode. Sunday, Jun 29.

Robert Smalls is one of this country’s greatest heroes, yet most people have not heard of him. Living in relative anonymity compared to black history icons such as Harriet Tubman and Frederick ...

Smalls, born into a Gullah slave family, in Beaufort, S.C., lived a life characterized as a constant striving for freedom, achievement, and recognition.

Shortly after Robert Smalls met with President Abraham Lincoln, War Secretary Edwin Stanton allowed 5,000 former slaves to fight for the Union Army during the Civil War.

For much of the 20th Century, Robert Smalls’ story was ignored, but now, mirroring a broader rediscovery of Smalls’ achievements in the general public, there’s a growing push among state ...

The Maj. Gen. Robert Smalls arrived in Charleston Harbor on March 16, 2021. The LSV-8 was named in honor of Robert Smalls, who was a 23-year-old slave during the Civil War when he commandeered a ...

The story of Robert Smalls cannot be told without the Planter, the Civil War steam boat he first commandeered and then commanded. And though Smalls now rests at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in ...