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 ...

But once the Civil War started, the Confederates seized it for use as an armed transport vessel. Smalls knew how to navigate. He knew that the white crew trusted him.

"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 ...

Robert Smalls is recognized as one of Civil War heroes who commandeered a confederate ship, the CSS Planter, freeing himself along with his enslaved crew and their families in 1862.

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.

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.

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

To save his family—and himself—Robert Smalls had to do something drastic. His bravery made him a folk hero. ... It was the midst of the Civil War, and Smalls helped steer the boat, ...

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.

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 ...

The ship’s pilot helped his family reach freedom, then served in the Civil War and in the U.S. Congress. Robert Smalls’s statue will be the first to honor an individual Black citizen on South ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - A Civil War hero and a man whose lasting legacy is still felt in South Carolina today will soon be honored at the State House. This recognition of Robert Smalls will be ...