Robert Smalls, Civil War Hero Who Escaped Enslavement, Is Getting a Statue in South Carolina
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Robert Smalls, Civil War Hero Who Escaped Enslavement, Is Getting a Statue in South Carolina

The ship’s pilot helped his family reach freedom, then served in the Civil War and in the U.S. Congress. Robert Smalls’s statue will be the first to honor an individual Black citizen on South Carolina State House grounds.