Robert Smalls, memorialized in a bust at Beaufort ... Two days before the election, another Georgia-based bureau agent informed his superiors that he knew of “five freedmen who have been ...

The Robert Smalls statue will face the State House and ... The commission picked Basil Watson, from Lawrenceville, Georgia, to sculpt the statue. Watson also sculpted the memorial to desegregation ...

On April 5, 1839, Robert Smalls, Civil War hero and five-term U.S. Congressman, was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, to his enslaved mother, Lydia Polite. In 1851, Smalls moved to the Charleston ...

Charleston Harbour, South Carolina, 1862. A man named Robert Smalls is staging a daring escape from slavery. Smalls had been forced to work as pilot on a prized confederate navy ship called the ...