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

The USS George Washington and its strike group recently pulled into Guam for a port call and “some brief but well-deserved ...

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 a real-life legend — an enslaved man who stole a Confederate ship, navigated it past enemy lines, and delivered freedom to himself, his family, and his crewmates.

But Robert Smalls isn't just being honored for his audacious escape. He spent a decade in the U.S. House, helped rewrite South Carolina's constitution to allow Black men equality after the Civil ...

The likeness of Robert Smalls, the escaped slave turned South Carolina lawmaker, will be remembered as the first African-American person honored with a statue at the State House at the hands of a ...

In his new graphic novel Defiant (Legion M/Stranger Comics, out now), the Captain America: Brave New World screenwriter tells the little-known story of Robert Smalls, who escaped slavery in 1862 and ...

Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort and died in 1915 in his hometown a free, but somewhat forgotten man who lived a life unimaginable to a woman holding her son born into slavery.

Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort and died in 1915 in his hometown a free, but somewhat forgotten man who lived a life unimaginable to a woman holding her son born into slavery.

A bust of Robert Smalls, who will soon be the first African American individual with a statue at the South Carolina Statehouse, is displayed Reconstruction Era National Historic Park, Thursday ...