A special committee has until January 15 to finalize the design, location and funding for a monument that will be erected on the lawn of the South Carolina State House ...

South Carolina is preparing to honor Robert Smalls, a former slave who became a prominent political leader, by erecting the first statue of an individual African American on its Statehouse lawn.

Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...

During the Civil War, Robert Smalls, a native of the Gullah Geechee Corridor city of Beaufort, South Carolina, donned a Confederate uniform to steal an enslaver’s ship. Smalls sailed his ...

In a significant moment for civil rights history, Simon Bouie and six other ... they participated in a pivotal sit-in at a Columbia, South Carolina lunch counter that was designated as whites ...

That helps us tell the story of enslaved people, but also free people, when the Civil War gets here and slavery ... that highlight key points in South Carolina history. “I mean, no surprise ...

For decades, historians have cobbled together clues. But thanks to a newly released set of census records spanning three ...

“South Carolina is a great state. We’ve got a lot of history, good and bad ... House and Senate and the US House after the Civil War? Smalls bought his master’s house in Beaufort in ...

Millions of words have been written about the American Civil War and there is nothing particularly ... Put simply, Robert ...

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. A statue of Robert ...