South Carolina to build first monument to an African American. Meet Robert Smalls

South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder’s ship and sail his family and a dozen others to freedom during the Civil War.

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South Carolina to build first monument to an African American. Meet Robert Smalls

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South Carolina to honor African American hero with a statue

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South Carolina to build first monument to an African American. Meet Robert Smalls