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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Schanke's love of history, coupled with her literary background, has come together to produce "Freedom At Dawn: Robert Smalls's Voyage Out of Slavery." The book will be available wherever books ...