Robert Smalls, an enslaved man, commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War to bring slaves to freedom. Later, he ...

For the first time ever, an individual African American will be permanently honored on the grounds outside South Carolina’s State House.

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.

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 ...

Parker’s Kitchen hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony on Jan. 9, for its new store in Beaufort, South Carolina.

A state panel has decided where a monument memorializing Civil War hero Robert Smalls will stand on the South Carolina State House grounds and what it will look like.

A clay rendering of the Robert Smalls monument. Basil Watson, of Georgia, design selected was selected to sculpt the statue. A monument honoring a former Black Congressman who commandeered a ...