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

Robert Smalls was a historic South Carolina lawmaker who escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship.

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 Carolina's Statehouse grounds.

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

Michael Boulware Moore, his great-great-grandson and author of the book “ Freedom on the Sea: The True Story of the Civil War ...

Jamaican sculptor Basil Watson has been chosen to create a historic statue of Robert Smalls, marking the first monument ...

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 ...

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Forty-five-year-old Aaron Tobias Polkey is unlike some members of his generation who grew up in Charleston but left to seek ...