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 ...
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The Civil War Begins
He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...
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Longtime Columbia civil rights leader and Confederate flag foe Lonnie Randolph dies
Randolph, who was raised in Columbia and ... a slave-holding, pre-Civil War society and, secondly, of the white supremacist Jim Crow era of segregation when South Carolina Blacks were denied ...
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Exploring South Carolina’s Role in America's Colonial, Revolutionary, and Civil War Eras
Cities like Charleston and Columbia ... people. South Carolina’s history is marked by its transitions from colonial prosperity to revolutionary struggle, and from Civil War devastation to ...