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 ...
Robert Smalls, an enslaved man, commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War to bring slaves to freedom. Later, he was elected to the state Legislature and Congress.
The memorial to Civil War hero Robert Smalls is set to be erected on the Statehouse grounds. Design and location set. Now, they just need a way to pay for it.