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 ...