As darkness enveloped the waters of Charleston Harbor, Robert Smalls realized that he would have no better chance to escape slavery than that morning. It was May 13, 1862, and Smalls did not hesitate, ...
Before Beaufort native Robert Smalls became a Civil War hero, a U.S. congressman and a South Carolina Hall of Fame inductee, he was a slave working aboard the Confederate ship the CSS Planter. Under ...
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