It recounts the amazing-because-it’s-all-true story of how an African-American slave named Robert Smalls led his family and other enslaved people on a daring escape almost a year after the Civil ...

Jonathan W. White - Author, A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House Before dawn on May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls stealthily took command of a Confederate ...

Robert Smalls was a 23-year-old slave pressed into service for the Confederacy aboard a warship called the Planter. For nearly a year, he quietly observed the movements of the ship and its crew.

Robert Smalls proved them wrong and changed history in the doing. Smalls was born in Beaufort, S.C., on April 5, 1839, the son of Lydia Polite, a slave who was a housekeeper in the city home of ...

Robert Smalls, memorialized in a bust at Beaufort’s Tabernacle Baptist Church, was sent to work in Charleston at age 12 after he started defying the strictures of slavery. Lisa Elmaleh In May ...

A group studying where to put South Carolina's first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls' statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist ...

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

The USS Chancellorsville is now called the USS Robert Smalls, the man who stole a Confederate steamer loaded with guns and delivered it to the Union Navy, delivering himself and 16 other crew and ...

A monument honoring a former Black Congressman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War is slated to stand outside of the visitor’s entrance of the State House. The Robert Smalls ...