Meet the real-life superhero Robert Smalls in Legion M's comic Defiant, bringing history to life in a daring Civil War tale. Learn the incredible story of Smalls stealing a Confederate warship ...

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 ...

Prosecutors said the 19-year-old from St. Helena Island stored a switch-modified pistol under a pillow at the Cross Creek Apartments.

A new law, buried inside an otherwise obscure piece of federal legislation, permits the Washington, D.C., City Council to ...

Early Life and Enslavement: Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, into slavery. His mother, who was ...

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Charleston Harbour, South Carolina, 1862. A man named Robert Smalls is staging a daring escape from slavery. Smalls had been forced to work as pilot on a prized confederate navy ship called the ...

He also portrays Capt. Robert Smalls, USN. Smalls was an enslaved African-American who became a hero for the Union during the Civil War. He escaped slavery on a captured Confederate ship and ...