The story of Robert Smalls stands as a powerful reminder that Black history is not a side note to the American story but is ...

The South Carolina Capitol grounds will soon include a statue of Robert Smalls, a formerly enslaved Civil War hero, among the statues of five white men, most with ties to the Civil War or Jim Crow.

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South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder’s ship ...

ATLANTA (WCSC) — A former slave who commandeered a Confederate warship and sailed his family to freedom is one of the greatest American heroes many Americans may never have been taught about. During ...