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African American Civil War hero to be honored outside SC’s state grounds
Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, and died in 1915 in ... In May 1862, during the Civil War, the steel-nerved ship pilot waited for the ship’s white Confederate crew ...
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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
Smalls helped the Union for the rest of the Civil War. After the South lost, Smalls went on to serve in the South Carolina House and Senate before being elected to the U.S. House. He bought his master ...