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 ...
A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ...
Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort ... Smalls would see a new South Carolina constitution in 1895 wipe out African Americans' right to vote in a convention led by "Pitchfork" Ben Tillman.